emjej@uokvax.UUCP (03/20/84)
#R:ecsvax:-215100:uokvax:3000020:000:480 uokvax!emjej Mar 18 21:04:00 1984 Re BCPL: BCPL is a stripped-down CPL, which was intended as a generalization of Algol 60. (See "The Main Features of CPL," *British Computer Journal* v.6, p.134 (1963).) The best BCPL reference I know of is *BCPL: the language and its compiler* by Martin Richards and Colin Whitby-Strevens (Cambridge, 1979). As for C--C is the next level up from PL360, and has similar purposes and design. For general purpose programming, there ought to be something better. James Jones