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From: felsenst@entropy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's BCPL?
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Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 02:00:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 25 02:00:27 1986
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Keywords: BCPL
Summary: Basic Cambridge Programming Language

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I believe BCPL stands for the Basic Cambridge Programming Language,
developed at Cambridge University in England.  It is the ancestor of
C and is widely used in Britain to do things that are done in the
U. S. in C.  In 'The C Programming Language' Kernighan and Ritchie
credit BCPL to Martin Richards and say that its influence on C was
through a language written by Ken Thompson, based on BCPL, and called
B.  B's successor was called C.  That is why C is called C.

                       Joe Felsenstein, Dept. Genetics, University 
                       of Washington, Seattle
                       ( ... uw-beaver!entropy!uw-evolution!joe)