Andy Wootton@AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Tooting of the founding folks, I just discovered that Martin Richards recently wrote a paper about BCPL on the Raspberry Pi. He was Eben Upton's PhD supervisor.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I haven't seen Martin for many years. He gave me some advice once on porting BCPL to the then new-fangled 8080.
@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I didn't know him but my first job was at CCAT, so I knew several people who did and my best friend at Aston University wrote a comparative report on typeless BCPL vs strictly-typed Algol 68 as his final year project. I wish I'd had time to read it 🙂
@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 The type system in Algol 68C was, it seemed to me, so strict that when you eventually managed to get your code to compile it didn't have any bugs left in it!
@TimWardCam @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I certainly never had time to discover any deeper bugs, by the time I got anything to compile. We only had 2 compiles per day, max.
@woo @AncTreat5358 @trouble @geospacedman @kibcol1049 The CAP had little else to do all day but act as a toy for research students. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/50+5/assets/pdf/cap.pdf