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- From: Lauren Boyd <laurenb@mdli.com>
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Why is C named 'C'?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:01:30 -0700
- Organization: Molecular Design, Ltd.
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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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- Yup:
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- "Many of the important ideas of C stem from the language BCPL,
- developed by Martin Richards. The influence of BCPL on C proceeded
- indirectly through the language B, which was written by Ken Thompson
- in 1970 for the first UNIX system on the DEC PDP-7."
- --K&R p. 1
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- Geez, if you woulda just rtfm!!!!!!!!!!
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- (-;
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- lb
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