Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!pete From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Blame it on Berkeley (?!) Message-ID: <13413@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 18 Aug 88 07:30:52 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Noted in the copy of IEEE Micro that arrived in my mailbox today: (p 76 -- in a review of True BASIC) ".... block-structured languages.... -- foreshadowed in Martin Richards' Berkeley California Programming Language (BCPL)....." Oh -- YEAH?? Hey, I know the reviewer lives in Berkeley, but so do I, and I'm not that chauvinistic!! Well at least he got the name of the language's author right. [For those who don't yet know the real expansion of the abbreviation, it means "Basic Cambridge Programming Language" (Cambridge, England, that is, where Richards did most of his work), and, yes, it IS old enough to "foreshadow" things.] BTW on the subject of True BASIC, has anybody paid any attention to that language on the Amiga (or elsewhere)? I've sort of ignored it, because those five letters stir deeply unpleasant emotions in my subconscious. -- Pete --