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- From: anderson@itsnet.com (Kelly Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Why is C named 'C'?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 20:48:00 GMT
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- telliott@ubmail (TODD ELLIOTT) wrote:
- >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'?
- >
- >If it was a product of demented minds of some technicians at Bell Labs, that
- >explains a lot. ;)
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- Because it was the succcessor to B. (This is not a joke)
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- I don't think there ever was an A, though, so the question becomes why did they name it B? :-)
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- -Kelly
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