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CPL Dead

CPL
KindProgramming language
Appeared1963
Ended1967
StatusDead
CreatorCambridge & London universities
FamilyALGOL
Also known asCombined Programming Language
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Cambridge-London's ambitious 'everything' language — too large to implement fully; its trimmed-down offspring BCPL is the direct ancestor of B and therefore of C.

Influenced by ALGOL 60
Succeeded by BCPL
Created by Christopher Strachey
Descendants BCPL

CPL — Cambridge and London's 1963 'Combined Programming Language' — was the committee's most ambitious language: Barron, Buxton, Hartley, Nixon, and Strachey designed it to unify everything. It was so complex no complete implementation ever shipped.\n\nIts BCPL descendant (Martin Richards's stripped CPL) led to B, then C — the world's most influential lineage by accident.

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)