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Computing | BCPL // n. [abbreviation, `Basic Combined Programming Language') A programming language developed by Martin Richards in Cambridge in 1967. It is remarkable for its rich syntax, small size of compiler (it can be run in 16k) and extreme portability. It reached break-even point at a very early stage, and was the language in which the original hello world program was written. It has been ported to so many different systems that its creator confesses to having lost count. It has only one data type (a machine word) which can be used as an integer, a character, a floating point number, a pointer, or almost anything else, depending on context. BCPL was a precursor of C, which inherited some of its features. Source: Jargon File. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BCPL | English | Basic Combined Programming Language | N/A |
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Crosswords: BCPL |
| Specialty definitions using "BCPL": ALgorIthmic ASsembly language, Automated Engineering Design ♦ CAMAL, Cambridge Lisp, CPL, CSL ♦ INTCODE ♦ OCODE ♦ Yet Another Compiler Compiler. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bcpl | 61 |
bcpl login | 5 |
bcpl mail web | 3 |
bcpl eteamz.com | 2 |
bcpl melissas | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-l-p" | |
+2 letters: public. | |
+3 letters: beclasp, bluecap, capable, capably, placebo, plumbic, publics, upclimb. | |
+4 letters: abapical, backslap, beclasps, blackcap, blacktop, bluecaps, capabler, culpable, culpably, epibolic, packable, peccable, placable, placably, placebos, playback, plowback, publican, publicly, pullback, republic, upclimbs. | |
+5 letters: amblyopic, backpedal, backslaps, beclasped, bicipital, blackcaps, blackpoll, blacktops, capablest, clapboard, clipboard, copublish, incapable, incapably, lampblack, lyophobic, nonpublic, parabolic, parbuckle, peaceable, peaceably, placeable, placeboes, playbacks, plowbacks, publicans, publicise, publicist, publicity, publicize, pullbacks, punchball, republics, subapical, superclub, upclimbed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 43 50 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -.-. .--. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000011 01010000 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B C P L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0043 0050 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36375046 |
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