[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <noKdnRadzt_Q87zSnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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>> It's "friendlier" than C.
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> It is more consistent than C.  Not sure on the friendlier part (yes I see 
> the quotes).
> 
> The biggest shock for people is that BLISS is essentially untyped.  It deals 
> with machine words.  There are language features that help you think "types" 
> but the language (and compiler) won't really help you from cutting off 
> fingers.

   The best way to understand BLISS may be to use you're object oriented
   thinking skills, but understand the language models the computer,
   not external real-world objects.

   If C can think of all files as streams of bytes, BLISS can think of
   all RAM as collections of machine words.