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From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:17

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:24:20 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2018 14:26:49 GMT Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:40:43 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> 
>> > On 26 Feb 2018 22:00:49 GMT Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:26:32 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > On 26 Feb 2018 15:43:49 GMT Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> >> BCPL is typeless too.
>> >> > 
>> >> > 	It has one type - word.
>> >> 
>> >> Sctually, I think the BCPL standard calls it a 'cell'. :)
>> > 
>> > 	<mode=old fart>It was a word when I heard it from Martin
>> > Richards in 1979, <mumble>bloody standards groups always inventing
>> > new terms. </mumble></mode>
>> 
>> Martin was there at the time!
> 
> 	I'd be very surprised if he hadn't been.

Those meetings went on for hours!

I ran the BCPL User Group in the 1980s.

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