BCPL in the new millenium (was: Proposal3: Make $_ a valid id entifier character

Parker, Mike mparker at CaseServices.com
Thu Jun 1 13:16:05 UTC 2000


> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:01:59PM +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> > 
> > Long pause while I find an Alto BCPL manual.
> 
> BCPL fans and committed retrocomputing enthusiasts should bookmark
> Martin Richards' web site at:
> 
> 	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/
> 
> Here you will find an up to date BCPL manual, portable implementions
> of BCPL and MCPL, a Tripos command shell, and other fun stuff.
> 
> Anyone care to implement SLANG translation to BCPL? We could have
> Squeak running in a BCPL virtual machine under a Tripos monitor
> hosted on Linux using Dr. Richards' latest work. Alternatively,
> hosting BCPL/Tripos in a Squeak image might be interesting.

Maybe, once I finish porting them down to the Palm Pilot and bolting
a proper garbage collector under MCPL.





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