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BCPL
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// , n. [abbreviation, Basic Combined Programming Language) A programming
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language developed by Martin Richards in Cambridge in 1967. It is remarkable
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for its rich syntax, small size of compiler (it can be run in 16k) and
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extreme portability. It reached break-even point at a very early stage, and
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was the language in which the original hello world program was written. It
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has been ported to so many different systems that its creator confesses to
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having lost count. It has only one data type (a machine word) which can be
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used as an integer, a character, a floating point number, a pointer, or
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almost anything else, depending on context. BCPL was a precursor of C, which
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inherited some of its features.
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