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by AlbertCory 1147 days ago
Funny, I don't think I ever saw that! We were told to not even bother learning BCPL, since Mesa was It.
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I have found it,

"We rejected BCPL as, being too basic and too primitive, {For example it has no data structure except l6-bit integers. }, This left only SPL and MFL."

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/mesa/OIS_Language_Selecti...

MPL eventually became Mesa.