Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!apple!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Blame it on Berkeley (?!) Message-ID: <6906@well.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 88 07:24:52 GMT References: <3786@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: Speak Before You Think Enterprises Lines: 10 Quote: "While there's life, there's threat." -- Servalan In article <3786@louie.udel.EDU> rsine@nswc-wo.arpa writes: >Really, I thought BCPL stood for British Crummy Programming Language. > No no. BCPL in and of itself is not necessarily cruddy. However, the compiler implementation MetaComCo used on the Amiga was extremely cruddy. BCPL means, therefore, British Compiler Programmers are Lousy. Schwab