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Richard Bos wrote:

> Billy Harris <wharris@mail.airmail.net> wrote:
> > More trivia: BCPL was orignally intended to be the first of a series of
> > 5 languages; B was explictly the second in the series and C the third.
> > Hence C++ really should be named P.
> Not true. Read K&R, or the link Magnus posted: when BCPL was created,
> nobody had thought of C yet. B was created based on BCPL. C was based on
> B; the name "C" was explicitly ambiguous, and I don't think it was ever
> revealed whether C was C because of ABCDEFG... or because of BCPL.
> Probably, both are half true, and the decision between D and P for the
> next-generation C would've been meaningless.

Likewise, the BCPL book out of Cambridge by BCPL's authors make statements
quite to the contrary, as if BCPL were poised to rule the world.

....heh...with its 36-bit wordlength...


