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From: jpff@draken.nada.kth.se (John Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: references wanted to CPL programming language
Message-ID: <189@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 07:55:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: draken.189
Posted: Mon Sep 21 07:55:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 10:24:12 EDT
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Reply-To: jpff@nada.kth.se (John Fitch)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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I know it is usual for Oxford University to claim all knowledge, but CPL 
was originally Cambridge,David Baron was indeed the first author of the paper,
but the others include Stachey and Hartley at least.  The C was originally for Cambridge, but it got changed with the London involvement.

There was a compiler for the Cambridge Titan, and as a student we were issued
the CPL manual (which I still have).  Half was through the year the compiler
was archived (ie kept on tape only).  One of my regrets is that I never used
it, but Robin Fairbairns (now of Laser Scan in Cambridge I think) must of been
the last user, with a seive program.  That was in 1968.  The compiler was 
slow, rumoured to be 17 pass, but others can correct me on this.
==John Fitch