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Martin Richards Alive

Martin Richards
KindPerson
Born1940
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.cl.cam.ac.uk ↗

Designed BCPL (1967) for writing compilers — stripped down by Thompson into B, then by Ritchie into C.

Created BCPL

Wrote BCPL (1967) at Cambridge — CPL stripped to a bootstrap compiler — because he wanted a systems language he could actually implement.\n\nStill active: he maintains a BCPL distribution and ported it to the Raspberry Pi. The B→C chain starts at his desk.

Sources

  1. cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_scientist)