Actually, Rapaire, that's funnier than you realise, cause there was a language known as 'B' - 'BCPL' ... :-) which WAS the precursor of 'C' (that's what Ritchie said!) - and 'A' was of course 'ALGOL'... :-)

Robin
Who in his younger and more foolish days set out to learn (at least to the level of being able to meaningfully skim the code and understand in a basic fashion what was going on) a language for each letter of the alphabet, and gave up about 40 or so later...

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