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James Harris

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Oct 21, 2021, 3:29:37 PM10/21/21
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Here is a reference for BCPL as described in 1967.

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


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Lasse Hillerøe Petersen

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Nov 12, 2021, 6:32:54 PM11/12/21
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:29:36 +0100, James Harris wrote:

> Here is a reference for BCPL as described in 1967.
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> 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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