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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: YABCPL acronym
Message-ID: <1866@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:15:13 GMT
References: <8801181828.AA14542@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> Rahul Dhesi writes:
> 
> >Are you sure?  I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming
> >Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C.
>  
>  Steve DeJarnett replies:
> 
> >>Since I don't see any smiley face here, I'm assuming that this is
> >>a serious question, to which the answer (according to everything I've read
> 
> Oh come on Steve, grow a sense of humor. How could he possibly be serious? You
> don't define names in terms of events that haven't happened yet!
> 
Like Roman coins dated 15 BC. :-)

> I always thought it was Bitchin' Camaro Propulsion Language. Are you going to
> enlighten me too?
> 
> dov

I maintain BCPL stands for Boring Conversation Programming Language, cuz
it leads to boring conversations about what it means.

Clayton E. Cramer