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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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Subject: Re: What's BCPL?
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 23:24:06 EST
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In article <376@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>BCPL stands for the "Before 'C' Programming Language", and was developed
>for the PDP-11 many years ago by the folks who brought us UNIX (Ken Thompson,
>et al).  I believe you can read more in The 'C' Programming Language.

uuuuhhhh..... My book on BCPL says it stands for Basic CPL.

It doesn't say much about CPL except it was invented at some
british university.

Other than that, you are pretty much correct.  Enough so that nobody knows
for sure which comes after C++, D or P.  I vote for P.
-- 
David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, soon, david@uky.csnet.

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