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- From: vanyo@ezaccess.net (Bill Vanyo)
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Why is C named 'C'?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:15:17 GMT
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- telliott@ubmail (TODD ELLIOTT) wrote:
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- >I know it sounds like a stupid question, but why is C named 'C' in the first
- >place? I can understand BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, or COBOL, but 'C'?
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- I think it was successor to a language calld B.
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- (I know there was a BCPL in its ancestry)
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- >If it was a product of demented minds of some technicians at Bell Labs, that
- >explains a lot. ;)
- ><- .sig begins here ->
- >Todd Elliott - telliott@ubmail.ubalt.edu
- >University of Baltimore School of Law
- >C128D Nirvana Enthusiast!
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