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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CPL Combined Programming Language. U Cambridge and U London. A very complex language, syntactically based on ALGOL 60, with a pure functional subset. Provides the ..where.. form of local definitions. Strongly typed but has a "general" type enabling a weak form of polymorphism. Functions may be defined as either normal or applicative order. Typed array and polymorphic list structures. List selection is through structure matching. Partially implemented on the Titan (Atlas 2) computer at Cambridge. Led to the much simpler BCPL. "The Main Features of CPL", D.W. Barron et al, Computer J 6(2):134-143 (Jul 1963). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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It was heavily influenced by Algol 60, but unlike Algol 60 which was extremely small, elegant and simple, CPL was big, only moderately elegant, and complex. It was intended to be good for both scientific programming (in the way of FORTRAN and Algol) and also commercial programming (in the way of Cobol). It can be seen as a similar effort to PL/I in this way, or to later efforts such as Ada.
CPL proved just a bit much for the small computers and immature compiler technologies of the time. Properly working compilers were probably written by about 1970 (I'm not completely sure about that), but the language was never very popular and seems to have disappeared without trace sometime in the 1970s.
BCPL was designed as a seriously simplified cut-down version of CPL, and some of the same people were involved. I think the intent was to have a language they could write the CPL compiler in without having to resort to Assembler or FORTRAN. Although probably intended as a temporary quick and dirty tool until CPL was up, BCPL was much more successful than CPL and lasted much longer and was influential in the creation and design of the languages B and C.
Barron, D. W., Buxton, J. N., Hartley, D. F., Nixon, E., Strachey, C.
"The main features of CPL". Computer Journal, volume 6, p 134 (1963).
CPL can also refer to the Cyberathelete Professional League, an online gaming league whose most popular video game is Counter-Strike.Sources
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Crosswords: CPL |
| Specialty definitions using "CPL": BCPL ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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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 |
CPL | Dutch | Circulaire polarisatie van luminescentie | Physics |
CPL | English | Computer programming language | N/A |
CPL | French | Chromatographie liquide | N/A |
CPL | Portuguese | Cromatografia lÃquida | Chemistry |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sgt. Matthew Mosley and Lance Cpl. Sacha Baker. |  | Japanese soldier surrendering to three U.S. soldiers in the Marshall Islands] / Cpl. J. Fabian. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor inspecting the facilities of the Army Education Center at McNair Barracks, Berlin military post, accompanied by Irving H. Krakusin, Col. Maurice W. Daniels, and Capt. E.A. Moorer] / U.S. Army p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Cpl. John E. Tomer.. | ||
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| "CPL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.18% of the time. "CPL" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.18% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | CPL Long Term Care Real Estate | Ireland | CPL Resources plc |
| United Kingdom | CPL Aromas plc | ||
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "CPL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 完全 (Complete, Completeness, Comprehensiveness, Downright, exclusively, out-and-out, Physically, Plenary, totally, utter, Wholly). (various references) | ||||
Korean | ì™„ì „í•œ (Complete, Consummate, integral, Perfect, utter). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | cplay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-p" | |
+1 letter: clap, clip, clop. | |
+2 letters: clamp, claps, clapt, clasp, clepe, clept, clips, clipt, clomp, clops, clump, copal, culpa, cupel, pical, picul, place, plack, plica, pluck, scalp, sculp. | |
+3 letters: alpaca, apical, caliph, calpac, capful, caplet, caplin, carpal, carpel, chapel, clamps, clasps, claspt, cleped, clepes, clomps, clumps, clumpy, clypei, collop, compel, comply, copalm, copals, coplot, copula, couple, culpae, cupels, cupful, cupola, cupula, cupule, epical, inclip, lockup, oilcup, packly, palace, parcel, pascal, pelvic, pencel, pencil, phylic, pickle, piculs, placed, placer, places, placet, placid, placks, plaice, planch, pleach, plench, plicae, plical, plucks, plucky, police, policy, public, scalps, schlep, sculps, sculpt, splice, unclip, upcoil, upcurl, yclept. | |
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