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No. Where BCPL doesn't have types, C does have types. They're not very good types, we're not going to get any prizes in a language design class, they're basically all the machine integers wearing fancy dress, but they are types.

You know how in C you can write "int k" or "char v" ? That's types. BCPL doesn't have that. Yes that's in the original K&R book, no you didn't need to wait until 1989 to have types in C, they were obligatory from the outset.




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