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For a look at how BCPL developed (by being easily ported to new machines), see: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL https://www.softwarepreservat

For a look at how BCPL developed (by being easily ported to new machines), see: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL

kjs3 2y ago
I always thought BCPL would have been a great language for 80s era micros. Fortunately, we had Turbo Pascal.
- pmcjones 2y ago
  But C was better because it incorporated byte addressing (BCPL was based on word addresses).
  - kjs3 2y ago
    Except the contemporary C compilers were uniformly terrible.