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Bcpl still exists in 2018?
by sideshowb 9y ago
Bcpl still exists in 2018?
- careersuicide 9y agoIt does! Even though, Martin Richards' homepage [0] hasn't been updated in a while you can try it out with a small amount of fuss [1]. 0: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/ 1: https://gist.github.com/seaneshbaugh/e09abd748ccc07c5463f253df97e4de8 https://gist.github.com/seaneshbaugh/e09abd748ccc07c5463f253....
- hwayne 9y agoHere's a PDF about running BCPL on a Raspberry Pi: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcpl4raspi.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcpl4raspi.pdf It's aimed at teaching programming to 10 year olds no prior experience. One of the first examples is implementing RSA.
- thedirt0115 9y agoImplementing a cryptosystem is one of the first things for 10 year olds with no prior programming experience???? That seems intense compared to Scratch, etc.
- jandrese 9y agoThe math is pretty straightforward. I assume they aren't implementing all of the surrounding logic that makes crypto such a bear.
- thedirt0115 9y agoI don’t mean so much that it’s super difficult, I’m just imagining that 10-year-olds would rather be making pictures move around on the screen over doing a math thing that they might not yet understand the importance of. I could be wrong, it’s been quite a while since I was 10 :) I was trying to imagine 10-year-old me reading that section about RSA in the thing they linked to.
- amyjess 9y agoYes, and Martin Richards still maintains it himself. He even uses it for his music processing research.
- dboreham 9y agoI worked two jobs where we used BCPL. Not since 1990 or so though..