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Interesting that BCPL included both one-line and multi-line comments, but C did not.
by tjr 17y ago
Interesting that BCPL included both one-line and multi-line comments, but C did not.
- jacquesm 17y agoI used the BBC micro version by Acornsoft in the gray past, it made the transition to C a lot easier when I finally got my hands on a C compiler (on a PDP 11 bought for scrap...).
- draegtun 17y agoYes Acorn/Acornsoft did do for some "off the track" languages.... I recall they did COMAL as well.
- handelaar 17y agoThere was a LISP as well. [My school, suddenly in possession of a gifted CS centre full of Beebs, wound up giving charge of the syllabus after two years to someone who promptly decided to teach COMAL to everyone in place of (the very sophisticated, for its time, and structural) BBC Basic. Fortunately I missed out there but they must have turned out the better part of a thousand basic-level COMAL coders for no good reason. Apparently these days the same guy's got all the 14-year-olds passing tests in, but almost certainly not understanding, Smalltalk instead.]