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From: keithc@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Keith Clarke)
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Subject: Re: references wanted to CPL programming language
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 06:55:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 06:55:15 1987
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Reply-To: keithc@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Keith Clarke)
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Keywords: cpl
Summary: two manuals, and a joke

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I have (on loan from Peter Landin) two manuals for CPL.
One is by David Barron, in Cambridge University Mathematical
Lab covers, and is called "An introduction to CPL for Titan".
It is in two parts, totals 73 pages, published July 1963, and is a
first edition, no less.

The other is 28 pages. No author is credited, but it includes
the cryptic note "JNB:MD/JML 29th March 1965 SN: 131".
It is called the "CPL Elementary Programming Manual", and was
published jointly by Cambridge and the University of London
Institute of Computer Science, price two shillings and sixpence.

The derivation: Cambridge Programming Language & Combined Programming
Language are both accepted by people around at the time. But
lots of people say it was really Chris's Programming Language
after Christopher Strachey.
-- 
Keith Clarke

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