I'll keep an eye on this! The last time I built Essex BCPL was in
summer 1974. I was peripherally involved with the compiler as part of
my Master's dissertation, and remember finding a fairly major error in
the register allocation algorithm!
I later implemented the same compiler on an ICL 4130. I
Yes, I am building Essex BCPL and I have the MUD source. Unfortunately I never
used tops-10 except to play MUD in the early 80s, so completely have no sense
of common understanding of utilities etc which is probably a bit of a
disadvantage. Still, I seem to be making progress.
> On 21 Feb