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CPL - failed venture or noble ancestor?
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ISSN: 1058-6180
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| David Hartley, "CPL - failed venture or noble ancestor?," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. , , 5555. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2012.37, author = {David Hartley}, title = {CPL - failed venture or noble ancestor?}, journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, volume = {99}, number = {1}, issn = {1058-6180}, year = {5555}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2012.37}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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This is a personal account of the development of the programming language CPL in the early 1960s by a joint team from the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge and the Institute of Computer Science in London. The project was to develop a language that would be suitable for all computer applications, whether scientific or otherwise, would efficiently exploit the immense power of the Ferranti Atlas, would be easy to use and, above all, would exhibit regularity in its form and facilities. The project failed to achieve these aspirations, but did lay important groundwork by establishing some of the basic principles that underlie today’s languages and directly led to the development of BCPL, B and ultimately C.
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David Hartley, "CPL - failed venture or noble ancestor?," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 26 June 2012. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2012.37>
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