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From: kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: BCPL referenes ?
Message-ID: <369@mips.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 07:22:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 07:22:24 1986
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> In article <1341@osu-eddie.UUCP> george@osu-eddie.UUCP (George Jones) writes:
> >Hi.  I just recieved a flier in the mail telling me that I can purchase
> >a BCPL compiler for my Amiga.  I am interested looking at the language
> >but have never seen one book on it, never seen one line of code in
> >articals, etc.   Could someone please point me to a good reference
> >book on the language.
> 
> The book that I like is the one written by the language designer Martin
> Richards and another person (?). I think it is "BCPL - the language and
> its compiler". Sorry if I got some of the details wrong - the book is
> in my office - but you will recognize the book as soon as you see it.

Yes.  Martin Richards and Colin Whitby-Strevens, Cambridge University Press,
1980.  It's cover is two shades of blue, soft-bound.  I got a copy ($20+) at
"Computer Literacy" on Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale, CA.  Their phone
number is 408-730-9955; they take phone-orders, MC, Visa, etc.

They only had the one copy, so be prepared for a Special-Order wait if
you decide to call them.

/kim

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