From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 09:42:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4832A1065670 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C2F8FC19 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAF9gnl5014994; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:50 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4CE10099.6010109@qeng-ho.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:49 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101030 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h+K92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:42:52 -0000 On 11/14/10 20:44, Gary Kline wrote: > TWo questions: didn't IBM create CPL? And doesn't BCPL > Stand for "British Computer Programming Language"? (I did have > both editions of the C book by Brian and DEnnis; then loaned the > 2nd edition and never got ti back.) I think Dennis gives credit > to BCPL Somewhere. Pretty sure those guys are all retired to > somewhere *warm and sunny* by now! According to Wikipedia: > The Combined Programming Language (CPL) was a computer programming > language developed jointly between the Mathematical Laboratory at the > University of Cambridge and the University of London Computer Unit > during the 1960s hence CPL gained the nickname "Cambridge Plus London" Martin Richards, who invented/first implemented BCPL is technically retired but still active here in Cambridge (the UK one): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/index.html [Note the address of Cambridge Computer Lab :-)] -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_