[HN Gopher] Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text
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       Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text
        
       Author : myth_drannon
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2023-06-02 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Strachey also designed CPL* (officially the Cambridge, or
       | Combined, programming language, but one can think of other
       | denotations for that "C"), which would get simplified into BCPL,
       | simplified even more into B, and then re-expanded slightly to
       | give birth to K&R C.
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       | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language) ,
       | which might have been more successful had machines of the time
       | had more memory and faster i/o devices...
        
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