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

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.

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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