Definition & Meaning | English word BCPL

Definitions of BCPL

1. (programming) Initialism of Basic Combined Programming Language: a programming language of the 1960s intended for writing compilers and on which the later language C was based.

Examples of Using BCPL in a Sentence

• BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language.
• Two implementations of KRC were written: David Turner's original one in BCPL running on EMAS, and Simon J.
• Because BCPL has no data types other than the machine word, nothing in the language itself helps a programmer remember variables' types.
• The entire AmigaDOS module was originally written in BCPL (an ancestor of the C programming language), the same language used to write TRIPOS.
• BCPL does not use native pointers, so the more advanced functionality of the operating system was difficult to use and error-prone.
• B started off as a syntactically changed variant of the systems programming language BCPL, a simplified (and typeless) version of CPL.
• Despite a fairly varied range of programming language products being available for the machine's Panos environment - 32016 assembly language, BASIC, BCPL, Fortran, Lisp, Pascal - mostly giving the impression of being "top-notch" implementations, other kinds of applications were more scarce or suffered from performance issues.
• GAIL has 70% equity in joint venture company Brahmaputra Cracker & Polymer Limited (BCPL) in Dibrugarh, Assam with a nameplate capacity of 220 KTA of HDPE & LLDPE and 60 KTA of PP.

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