joe davison wrote:
>C was the sequel to B. There was ambiguity as to whether C's successor
>should be D, or another specific letter (Which letter, and why?).
B was the successor to BCPL. Some people claime that in naming the
following languages, they were simply taking one letter of that at a
time. So there never was an "A". And the successor to "C" should then be
called "P". Which would make some childish people giggle.
Bart.
