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[Greg Ewing]

maney at pobox.com wrote:

>

> C's backstory in BCPL (by way of an even less wisely known language
> named 'B') also explains the otherwise cryptic comment (by Ritchie?)
> about the uncertainty over whether C's hypothetical successor (this was
> before C++, but that wasn't exactly a successor to C anyway) should be
> named 'D' or 'P'.  Programmer humor.  :-/


Some years ago I invented a language that I called "L".
It probably wasn't anything like whatever P++ would have
been, though...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg