BCPL
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BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language. Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use. 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. BCPL introduced several features of many modern programming languages, including using curly braces to delimit code blocks. BCPL was first implemented by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1967.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- BCPL
- Programming language.paradigm
- procedural, imperative, structured
- Programming language.designer
- Martin Richards
- Programming language.typing
- typeless (everything is a word)
- Programming language.influenced_by
- CPL
- Programming language.influenced
- B, C, Go
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- inception
- 1967-00-00
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- Further examples
- References
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BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language. Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use. 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. BCPL introduced several features of many modern programming languages, including using curly braces to delimit code blocks. BCPL was first implemented by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1967.
==Design==