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Date: 29 Apr 93 21:42:00 GMT
From: rational.com!questor!davidm@uunet.uu.net  (David Moore)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.214200.2998@rational.com>
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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.