Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:49 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) Message-ID: <4CE10099.6010109@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org>
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On 11/14/10 20:44, Gary Kline wrote: > TWo questions: didn't IBM create CPL? And doesn't BCPL > Stand for "British Computer Programming Language"? (I did have > both editions of the C book by Brian and DEnnis; then loaned the > 2nd edition and never got ti back.) I think Dennis gives credit > to BCPL Somewhere. Pretty sure those guys are all retired to > somewhere *warm and sunny* by now! According to Wikipedia: > The Combined Programming Language (CPL) was a computer programming > language developed jointly between the Mathematical Laboratory at the > University of Cambridge and the University of London Computer Unit > during the 1960s hence CPL gained the nickname "Cambridge Plus London" Martin Richards, who invented/first implemented BCPL is technically retired but still active here in Cambridge (the UK one): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/index.html [Note the address of Cambridge Computer Lab :-)] -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_
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