BCPL

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1975)

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danceswithvowels

BitWise

brucehoult

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danceswithvowels

1975

MANIFEST Destiny!

BitWise

1981–1988

I read the book in '81 but had to wait until '84 to try BCPL on my BBC Micro. Acorn had a utility to make the resulting code ROMable and I used it on a couple of projects.

brucehoult

1983–1984

In many ways, I actually prefer BCPL to K&R C (but not ANSI or C++). I still have the manual.