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gabrielsroka
on May 11, 2024
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BCPL evolved from CPL. (2021) [pdf]
> a stripped down and syntactically changed version of BCPL, called B, was the language on which the C programming language was based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL
labster
on May 12, 2024
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And then their descendant Perl took both the P and the L for its file extension .pl. Or so Larry Wall told me.
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