kruger@whyvax.dec.com (Desperate Drive Mounted to keep Larouche off Ballot) (01/19/88)
Rahul Dhesi writes: >Are you sure? I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming >Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C. Steve DeJarnett replies: >>Since I don't see any smiley face here, I'm assuming that this is >>a serious question, to which the answer (according to everything I've read Oh come on Steve, grow a sense of humor. How could he possibly be serious? You don't define names in terms of events that haven't happened yet! I always thought it was Bitchin' Camaro Propulsion Language. Are you going to enlighten me too? dov
cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (01/22/88)
> Rahul Dhesi writes: > > >Are you sure? I always thought BCPL stood for "Before the C Programming > >Language", since BCPL was a predecesor of C. > > Steve DeJarnett replies: > > >>Since I don't see any smiley face here, I'm assuming that this is > >>a serious question, to which the answer (according to everything I've read > > Oh come on Steve, grow a sense of humor. How could he possibly be serious? You > don't define names in terms of events that haven't happened yet! > Like Roman coins dated 15 BC. :-) > I always thought it was Bitchin' Camaro Propulsion Language. Are you going to > enlighten me too? > > dov I maintain BCPL stands for Boring Conversation Programming Language, cuz it leads to boring conversations about what it means. Clayton E. Cramer