[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Richard Maher]

On 9/10/2014 9:24 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:05:50 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
>>     Macro-11 and Macro-32 I can understand.  But Macro-10 was one of
>>     the most different I've worked with, out of several.
>
> The assembler or the instruction set?
>
> The assembler's ability to have code literals looks confusing to new

> reader.   It had lambda routines years before Python or C++.

> Plus using "dot" in those nested literals often gave you results

> you didn't expect.  (but then again, it is an assembler -

> it is supposed to have sharp edges!)
>
>
What did you do in the War Grandad?