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BACI stands for Ben-Ari Concurrent Interpreter. The compiler and interpreter
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originally were procedures in a program written by M. Ben-Ari, based on the
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original Pascal compiler by Niklaus Wirth. The original version of the BACI
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compiler and interpreter was created from that source code and was hosted on
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a PRIME mainframe. After several modifications and additions, this version
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was ported to a PC version in Turbo Pascal, to Sun Pascal, and to C. Finally,
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the compiler and interpreter were split into two separate programs.
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Recently, a C-- compiler has been added to the BACI suite of programs to
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compile source programs written in a restricted dialect of C++ into PCODE
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object code executable by the interpreter. Compared with other concurrent
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languages, BACI offers a variety of synchronization techniques with a
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syntax that is usually familiar. Any experienced C or Pascal programmer could
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use BACI within hours.
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