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yeah that was my immediate thought, stopped reading at that point. BCPL was from the late 60s, most people were introduced to it in the 70s, C++ from the mid-8
by Taniwha 7y ago
yeah that was my immediate thought, stopped reading at that point.
BCPL was from the late 60s, most people were introduced to it in the 70s, C++ from the mid-80s
- pjmlp 7y agoAnd it was never intended to be used as full programming language rather to bootstrap the CPL compiler, hence the B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language) In an alternative universe, had the CPL project not suffered management issues and C would never had happened.
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