In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/15/2007
at 11:34 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Because after they got C going that did not want to risk creating a D
> to replace it (but went on to C+ and then C++ [getting "Better" each
> time]). You do know that C was proceeded by a B (which never made it
> out of the planning stage).
Humor is such a subtle thing. Please read my question in context
("Isn't "C" the language that grades itself?"); the implication of the
question is that since the grade is F, the language did not correctly
grade itself.
BTW, B was derived from BCPL.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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