language: Unix BC

`Language:`	Unix BC (arbitrary-precision arithmetic language)
`Package:`	C-BC
`Version:`	1.1
`Parts:`	bytecode compiler, interpreter, documentation, examples
`Author:`	Mark Hopkins <mark@omnifest.uwm.edu>
`Location:`	alt.sources (10/04/93), or contact author by E-mail.
`Description:`	A strongly typed version of BC with expanded C-like syntax, more base types, with ability to form array and pointer types of any dimension and to allocate/free arrays at run-time.
`Conformance:`	Most POSIX-BC features supported, except functions must be declared consistently and declared before first use. String handling slightly different.
`Reference:`	C-BC implementation notes contained with software documentation
`Requires:`	ANSI-C compiler
`Ports:`	DOS, Unix
`Portability:`	No system dependent features present.
`Updated:`	August 23rd, 1993

`Language:`	Unix BC (arbitrary-precision arithmetic language)
`Package:`	GNU BC
`Version:`	1.02
`Parts:`	parser (yacc), interpreter, BC math library
`Author:`	Philip A. Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
`Location:`	ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/bc-1.02.tar.Z or any other GNU archive site
`Description:`	BC is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language with a C-like syntax that traditionally provided a front-end to DC. This version, however, is self-contained and internally executes its own compiled code (unrelated to DC code).
`Conformance:`	Superset of POSIX BC (P10003.2/D11), with a POSIX-only mode.
`Restriction:`	Source code falls under the GNU CopyLeft.
`Requires:`	vsprintf and vfprintf routines
`Ports:`	Unix (BSD, System V, MINIX, POSIX)
`Updated:`	?

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