C: is it just another descendant of - (nf)

[emjej at uokvax.UUCP]

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uokvax!emjej    Mar 18 21:04:00 1984

Re BCPL: BCPL is a stripped-down CPL, which was intended as a generalization of
Algol 60. (See "The Main Features of CPL," *British Computer Journal* v.6, p.134
(1963).) The best BCPL reference I know of is *BCPL: the language and its compiler*
by Martin Richards and Colin Whitby-Strevens (Cambridge, 1979).

As for C--C is the next level up from PL360, and has similar purposes and design.
For general purpose programming, there ought to be something better.

						James Jones