Please please please do not delete from Wikipedia, unless the text you are deleting is incorrect or libelous. I couldn't fill the back of a postage stamp with my knowledge of BCPL but I can see that the last person who edited this removed at least two pieces of information. If it's not outdated, and therefore inaccurate, please restore it. Also, when you're removing something, please explain why. It allows discussion and causes less grief for people with time invested in an article; some of our contributors have been feeling rather discouraged lately-- and for good reason--because of rash editing. --
Koyaanis Qatsi
I just didn't think the Jargon file was a good source. Compilers may have been as small as 16KB but I find no source for it. The smallest one I have used was 32 KB.
Entries from the Jargon File do not in general make good encyclopedia (wikipedia) entries. They are slanted towards frivolity and amusement rather than neutrality and solidity.
Regardless, you are right, I should have probably left in the comment about small compilers.
Yes, I should have explained what I was doing.
I have used weasel words in the revised version. Which I will attempt to remove with some fact finding.
--drj
I would like to look over a 32K BCPL compiler. If you could record links to some of your findings here, It would be nice.
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