BCPL is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language.
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17 Facts About BCPL
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However, its influence is still felt because a stripped down and syntactically changed version of BCPL, called B, was the language on which the C programming language was based.
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BCPL introduced several features of many modern programming languages, including using curly braces to delimit code blocks.
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BCPL was first implemented by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1967.
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BCPL was designed so that small and simple compilers could be written for it; reputedly some compilers could be run in 16 kilobytes.
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BCPL was thus a popular choice for bootstrapping a system.
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BCPL was the first brace programming language and the braces survived the syntactical changes and have become a common means of denoting program source code statements.
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Philosophy of BCPL is not one of the tyrant who thinks he knows best and lays down the law on what is and what is not allowed; rather, BCPL acts more as a servant offering his services to the best of his ability without complaint, even when confronted with apparent nonsense.
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BCPL was first implemented by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1967.
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BCPL was a response to difficulties with its predecessor, Cambridge Programming Language, later renamed Combined Programming Language, which was designed during the early 1960s.
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Richards created BCPL by "removing those features of the full language which make compilation difficult".
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BCPL is the language in which the original hello world program was written.
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BCPL was the initial language used in the seminal Xerox PARC Alto project, the first modern personal computer; among other projects, the Bravo document preparation system was written in BCPL.
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In 1974 a dialect of BCPL was implemented at BBN without using the intermediate O-code.
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MacBCPL was released for the Apple Macintosh in 1985 by Topexpress Ltd, of Kensington, England.
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In 1979, implementations of BCPL existed for at least 25 architectures; the language gradually fell out of favour as C became popular on non-Unix systems.
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BCPL continues to program in it, including for his research on musical automated score following.
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