[Freeciv-Dev] Re: OT: Hello World (was: Re: Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526))

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Miguel Farah:
 
> I'll quote from the Jargon File:
> 
>    :BCPL: // n.  [abbreviation, `Basic Combined Programming
> Language') A programming language developed by Martin Richards in
> Cambridge in 1967. It is remarkable for its rich syntax, small size
> of compiler (it can be run in 16k) and extreme portability. It reached
> break-even point at a very early stage, and was the language in which
> the original {hello world} program was written. It has been ported to so
> many different systems that its creator confesses to having lost count. It
> has only one data type (a machine word) which can be used as an integer,
> a character, a floating point number, a pointer, or almost anything else,
> depending on context.  BCPL was a precursor of C, which inherited some
> of its features.

Doh.  I didn't think to look under BCPL -- `hello world' didn't link
back there . . .

Thanks!

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Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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