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BCPL 1967

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by: James Harris - Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC

Here is a reference for BCPL as described in 1967.

https://cucps.soc.srcf.net/document/bcplstd.txt

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From: lhp+news@toft-hp.dk (Lasse Hillerøe Petersen)
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by: Lasse Hillerøe Pete - Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:32 UTC

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:29:36 +0100, James Harris wrote:

> Here is a reference for BCPL as described in 1967.
>
> https://cucps.soc.srcf.net/document/bcplstd.txt

Martin Richards, now 81 according to Wikipedia, still has a webpage on
BCPL at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/BCPL.html - I hope this means he
is still alive and well. BCPL was of course based on (and intended as a
systems programming language for the development of?) CPL, which I note
you have also made a post on. The webpage includes a link to a compiler,
to Richards' derivative language MCPL, and to his home page, where there
are links to several articles on both BCPL and how it was evolved from
CPL.

/Lasse

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Subject	Author
BCPL 1967	James Harris
Re: BCPL 1967	Lasse Hillerøe Petersen