On: Algol-68 seemed like a good idea

[pmcjones]

For a look at how BCPL developed (by being easily ported to new machines), see: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL

[kjs3 → pmcjones]

I always thought BCPL would have been a great language for 80s era micros. Fortunately, we had Turbo Pascal.

[pmcjones → kjs3]

But C was better because it incorporated byte addressing (BCPL was based on word addresses).

[kjs3 → pmcjones]

Except the contemporary C compilers were uniformly terrible.