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I found a page on history, and the byte-access operator was an introduction at some later stage. Didn't see a timeline as such. But I think of classic BCPL as being strongly word-oriented.

cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pd

"Later a byte subscription operator (%) was added eliminating the need for the library functions getbyte(s,i) and putbyte(s,i,x)."

Thing is I haven't had to use a byteless BCPL!

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