Implementing BCPL on the burroughs B6700
C. Lakos · Software Practice and Experience · 1980
Abstract This paper investigates the problems of implementing the programming language BCPL on the Burroughs B6700 computer. The problem is unusual because of BCPL's typeless nature and unstructured view of memory in contrast to the B6700's typed and highly structured memory. The proposals are compared with the implementation distributed by the University of Warwick. It is shown that a less awkward implementation is possible if one is primarily guided by the requirements of the language rather than conventional practice on the target machine. It is advocated that in producing the intermediate language form of a source program, the more structuring information which is discarded the more the possible implementation problems which may arise.