From: rational.com!questor!davidm@uunet.uu.net (David Moore)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Date: 29 Apr 93 21:42:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.214200.2998@rational.com> (raw)
In article 8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com, duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Art Duncan
) writes:
>In article <EMERY.93Apr29091552@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mitre.
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.
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1993-04-29 21:42 David Moore [this message]
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1993-05-07 13:25 Its ADA not Ada after all Bjarne Stroustrup
1993-05-01 9:49 Andrew Dunstan,,2285592,
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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