One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto

Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by pjmlp on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:40PM (#14588769)

Nice, just a bit disappointed it was in BCPL and not Mesa.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by kens on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:28PM (#14589672)

I'm working on getting Mesa and Smalltalk running on the Alto, so stay tuned...

But BCPL is actually an interesting language. I knew that it influenced C (as did Algol and other languages), but until using BCPL I didn't realize how much of C was really the same as BCPL.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by jacquesm on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:33PM (#14590951)

BCPL is almost a predecessor to C. The 8 bit micro that I used had a BCPL compiler for it.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRO...

That was a nice stepping stone to C on the Atari ST.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by eschaton on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:17AM (#14592362)

It wasn't "almost" a predecessor to C, it was a direct predecessor.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by pjmlp on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:36AM (#14592420)

There was B in between, which was Ken's attempt to a BCPL compiler, even the language's manuals look quite similar.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by pjmlp on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:25PM (#14590158)

Thanks for the information, curious how it will turn out to be.

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