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> I think it was Peter van der Linden, in "Deep C Secrets", who reminded us that > "a.out" was so named because it was short for "assembler output". What I heard was this: the first compiler language *way* back when was called "a". Next was "b", then "bcpl", then "c". a.out was the output of the "a" compiler. You'd think we'd have c.out by now ;-)
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