Re: BCPL over C
I've never programmed in BCPL but code samples look like it would be easy to parse & tokenize into an AST and spit out machine code. Far more so than C. That's probably why it enjoyed some early success, especially when C was kind of an ad hoc mess until ANSI C put some semblance of portability onto it.
Once that happened the reason for BCPL kind of died with it. I know AmigaOS 2.0 began the migration to C and I wonder what compiler they used. I remember using Lattice/SAS C on the Amiga which was pretty good but there was also an Aztec C which wasn't so great.
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