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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (really BCPL)
Message-ID: <1335@winchester.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 08:06:50 GMT
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Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
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In article <883@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
>Since posting my article on BCPL agreeing with Eric Raymond's view that the
>name stands for "British Common Programming Language" (or in fact as I just
>type this, it occurs to me that it was "British Computer Programming
>Language"!!),  ...

>....  Really digging into the
>haze of time, was it developed in London?  Imperial College??  I still
>think the designer's name was Hendry.

Martin Richards' article in 1969 SJCC says:

BCPL = Basic CPL, worked started while Richards was at MIT,
finished at Cambridge.

CPL = Combined Programming Language, "jointly developed at Cambridge
and London Universities".
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