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'''CPL''' (Combined Programming Language or Cambridge Programming Language) was a programming language developed at the universities of Cambridge and London in the early 1960s. It is most notable for being a distant ancestor of [[C]] and its descendants, since CPL begat [[BCPL]] which begat [[B]] which begat [[C]] which begat [[C++]], [[C Sharp|C#]], [[Objective-C]] and other languages, with everything from [[Java]] to [[Perl]] arguably belonging somewhere in that family tree. | '''CPL''' (Combined Programming Language or Cambridge Programming Language) was a programming language developed at the universities of Cambridge and London in the early 1960s. It is most notable for being a distant ancestor of [[C]] and its descendants, since CPL begat [[BCPL]] which begat [[B]] which begat [[C]] which begat [[C++]], [[C Sharp|C#]], [[Objective-C]] and other languages, with everything from [[Java]] to [[Perl]] arguably belonging somewhere in that family tree. | ||
Latest revision as of 04:19, 21 March 2014
CPL (Combined Programming Language or Cambridge Programming Language) was a programming language developed at the universities of Cambridge and London in the early 1960s. It is most notable for being a distant ancestor of C and its descendants, since CPL begat BCPL which begat B which begat C which begat C++, C#, Objective-C and other languages, with everything from Java to Perl arguably belonging somewhere in that family tree.
However, the syntax of CPL bears more resemblance to ALGOL than the C family of languages, with := being used for assignments instead of a bare equal sign (as also done in Pascal and Ada).
