Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C: is it just another descendant of - (nf) Message-ID: <6269@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 23:00:44 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6269 Posted: Mon Mar 19 23:00:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 00:57:19 EST Lines: 12 #R:ecsvax:-215100:uokvax:3000020:000:480 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