ltf@well.UUCP (Lance T Franklin) (07/21/86)
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Has anybody heard anything about a native BCPL compiler for the Amiga?
I recently read an ad in Byte magazine from MetaComCo with several languages
shown for the Atari ST, the Amiga and the Sinclair QL: Among these were
APL, MCC Basic and BCPL...since I'm an old BCPL hacker, I was interested in
this and was wondering whether anybody on the net knew anything about
MetaComCo's implementation of BCPL. I've heard some nasty comments about BCPL
on the net, but I liked it...it was a real handy little language for systems
programming, games, utilities...once you got used to it, you could hack up
just about anything with great ease. By the way, anybody else around here who
worked with it? I understand Xerox worked with it quite a lot, and of course,
it still seems to enjoy some popularity in the UK.
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