[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <luhujr$hfe$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> Paul Sture wrote:
>>
>>> Since I just stated in another post that Fortan was the first HLL language
>>> available for VAX/VMS, was Bliss available to the public before it
>>> appeared on the Freeware CDs?
>> Bliss was available on the PDP-11s.  But as with other compilers, you 
>> had to purchase it.  Free came later.
> 
>    I've seen a free BLISS compiler for PDP-11 on a DECUS tape.  But I
>    thought DEC only supported BLISS-16 as cross compilers that ran
>    on PDP-10 or VAXen.
> 

Yes, and I've already been corrected on that mis-assumption.

But, you bring up something for Johnny to look at.  Perhaps the 
experimental Bliss compiler might exist somewhere in DECUS ...