Re: what's after slink
*-kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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| > - Another naming scheme without any background would be A, B, C...
| > There where programming languages doing this for only three
| > stages to get *very* popular...
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| Nope. That wasn't the sequence that led to C. I won't swear to it, but I
| seem to remember the predecessor of C was BCPL.
CPL -> BCPL -> B -> C
B was never widely published or used, so many don't count it. I don't
think there ever was an A.
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