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Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for developing the BCPL programming language, part of early research into portable software and the ancestor of the B programming language that Ken Thompson wrote, which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of C.

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Birth Year
1940 1
Birth Date
1940-07-21 1
Nationality
British 1
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    Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language
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    Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language
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    Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language
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