[scrabblehack]

I heard there was an “A” language - the only thing left of it was a.out in UNIX, and a.exe in gcc.

[Blagden Alley]

Seems reasonable. I saw a microfiche of B for a sort in very early 70’s. I had not yet heard of C. But C can be viewed as a
portable assembler, so it is straightforward. C++ is much more fun.

[dayglored]

> I heard there was an “A” language - the only thing left of it was a.out in UNIX, and a.exe in gcc.

Pretty sure that "A" language was "Assembly". "a.out" was the (binary) output of the assembler program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out