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I'm working on getting Mesa and Smalltalk running on the Alto, so stay tuned... But BCPL is actually an interesting language. I knew that it influenced C (as d

by kens 9y ago

I'm working on getting Mesa and Smalltalk running on the Alto, so stay tuned... But BCPL is actually an interesting language. I knew that it influenced C (as did Algol and other languages), but until using BCPL I didn't realize how much of C was really the same as BCPL.

pjmlp 9y ago
Thanks for the information, curious how it will turn out to be.
jacquesm 9y ago
BCPL is almost a predecessor to C. The 8 bit micro that I used had a BCPL compiler for it. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRODPIC-9770.jpg http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRO... That was a nice stepping stone to C on the Atari ST.
- eschaton 9y ago
  It wasn't "almost" a predecessor to C, it was a direct predecessor.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    There was B in between, which was Ken's attempt to a BCPL compiler, even the language's manuals look quite similar.