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- From: mikeb@magna.com.au (Mike Benson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Duplicated programming language names? (was Re: ... )
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 10:15:02 GMT
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- In article <slrn4dm1k3.46d.dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>, dfox@belvedere.sbay.org
- (dfox) wrote:
- >>Actually, I always thought C was descended from BCPL [I don't remember
- >>what it stands for]; C was called C not because it was the third letter
- >>in the alphabet, but because it's precursor was a descendent of BCPL,
- >>called B, and C just happened to be the next letter in BCPL.
-
- According to the first edition of K&R, C was influenced by an early
- language writing effort by Ken Thompson, called "B", written for UNIX
- on a PDP-7 circa 1970. Thompson derived a number of ideas for B from
- Martin Richards' BCPL (which I believe stands for "Basic Computer
- Programming Language"), which he then carried on into C, which tradition
- has it, was first used for the port of UNIX to the PDP-11.
-
- As any long term AmigaOS programmer will quickly point out, C is _very_
- different from BCPL.
-
- Mike.
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