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- From: qjackson@direct.ca (Quinn Tyler Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Why is C named 'C'?
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:22:16 GMT
- Organization: Parsepolis Software
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- Matt Young <youngm@interramp.com> wrote:
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- >>
- >> Because it was the succcessor to B. (This is not a joke)
- >>
- >> I don't think there ever was an A, though, so the question becomes why did they name it B? :-)
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-
- >Well, then why isn't C++ named D?
-
- Stroustrup might just as likely have called it P, the next letter of
- BCPL.
-
- From _Computer Languages, A Guide for the Perplexed_ by Naomi S.
- Baron, 1986, page 159:
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- "The new language was called C. (Ritchie leaves us to guess
- whether he was following Thompson in pulling out the next letter in
- the name BCPL or taking C as the next letter of the alphabet following
- B.)"
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- Cheers,
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