From: alice!bs@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Date: 7 May 93 13:25:39 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25443@alice.att.com> (raw)
> In article 8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com, duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Art Dun
can) writes:
> >In article <EMERY.93Apr29091552@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mit
re.org (David Emery) writes:
> >|> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
> >|> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >The successor of "B".
> >
> Which ought to have been followed by P but was actually followed by C++.
>
> The sequence, of course, is BCPL - Basic Cambridge Programming Language.
BCPL is Basic CPL where CPL has had several interpretations over the years.
C==Cambridge is one but after CPL became a joint project with Imperial
College London C==Combined was a more polite interpretation. Real old-times
point to C==Christopher (Stratchy) as the most reasonable interpretation.
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1993-05-07 13:25 Bjarne Stroustrup [this message]
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1993-04-29 21:42 David Moore
1993-04-29 19:52 Art Duncan
1993-04-29 16:45 Eric H Seale
1993-04-29 15:10 Robert Kitzberger
1993-04-29 14:15 David Emery
1993-04-29 2:09 Alex Blakemore
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