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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
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Subject: Re: BCPL vs C
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 18:50:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 18:50:47 1984
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>Another ability BCPL had...
>was the ability to suppress duplicate includes...

Ahh, but it was so implementation dependant.  The version I used
on an ICL 1906 (model number, not design date) which I think was written
by a masters student at Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham,
Wiltshire, could only cope with a limited number of include files, and
you were also limited to 4096 bytes worth of manifest constants because
of some obscure data area on the 1906.

But i did like the ability to nest functions within functions - very
useful for tracing - and the unlimited length symbol names were pretty
useful too...

		marcus hand	pyuxt!marcus