"Our Cyber Correspondent says that the C programming language was originally developed for the BBC micro computer of the 1980s, but the EU insisted that we drop the "British" part of the name, calling it BC. Eventually it was used in other systems, so they dropped the other B, and now it's just called C. But we still run the BBC on BC principles to this day"
So pleased the licence tax is used so well.
Stevan
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