BCPL, which stands for Basic Combined Programming Language, was designed by Martin Richards at the University of Cambridge in 1967 as a simple language for writing compilers and system software. A BCPL compiler produced an intermediate code that could be translated for different computers, which made it easy to move to new machines. It had a single data type, the machine word, and a simple syntax. Ken Thompson, who had used it, created a stripped-down version called B for early Unix, and Dennis Ritchie then developed it into C. BCPL thus stands at the start of the family of languages which led to C, C++ and many others.
Before and after
- 1967Creation of Logo
- 1967Strawberry Fields Forever
- 1967Naxalbari uprising
- 1967Launch of Rolling Stone
- 1967Creation of BCPL
- 27 January 1967Apollo 1
- 27 January 1967Outer Space Treaty
- 14 February 1967Birth of Mark Rutte
- 18 February 1967Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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