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Date: 7 May 93 13:25:39 GMT
From: alice!bs@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Message-ID: <25443@alice.att.com>
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 > 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.