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Kaz took a stab at it recently and found a few surprising features that didn't remain in C: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/
by mahmud 17y ago
Kaz took a stab at it recently and found a few surprising features that didn't remain in C:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/6530fc83a74a8a7e?pli=1 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...
In Summary:
I didn't say BCPL is better
than its successors. Only that not everything in its successors is strictly an
improvement over its BCPL counterpart.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think the reason for a good bit of that is that BCPL was first stripped to produce 'B', then expanded again to produce 'C'.
- ajb 17y agoBCPL's predecessor, CPL, had even more features: things like type inference, closures, polymorphism. It was never completely implemented. The machines at the time were too small - 4kwords being a typical size. It would probably be fairly easy nowadays.