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17. The BCPL language


  • Result of portable software research at MIT in 1967

  • Several operating systems were written in BCPL, partially or entirely

  • BCPL Brings us

    • brace symbols { } originally written as
      $( and )$

    • // line comments

    • first ever "Hello, World!" program

    Martin Richards
  • Martin Richards, image courtesy of Martin Richards' homepage at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK:
    cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/


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