BCPL

BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966. 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. This important fact led many C programmers to humorously issue the backronym Before C Programming Language. BCPL was the first brace programming language, and the braces survived the syntactical changes and have become a common means of denoting program source code statements. In...