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Date:Mon Oct 4 11:25:00 1993 
Subject:CPL 
From:Robin Popplestone 
Volume-ID:931005.01 

Scott Wheeler asks...

> Robin,  the  CPL  you keep  mentioning  -  is it  the  same  as  the
> (unfinished?)  ancestor of BCPL, and are there any books extant  on
> it?

CPL,   which   stood   for   "Combined   Programming   Language",   or
"Christopher's Programming Language" was indeed the ancestor of  BCPL.
The combination  alluded  to was  Oxbridge,  and the  Christopher  was
Strachey. I don't  know what info  is extant  - I knew  about it  from
having heard Strachey et.al.  talk about it,  and from Rod  Burstall's
experience with the implementation. There may be some stuff around  in
Oxford/Cambridge.

Robin.