[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[John Reagan]

On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 1:06:00 PM UTC-4, Hans Vlems wrote:

> Quite right, there aren't that many languages out there with native support for item_lists (BLISS probably being the only one).
> But it is not very difficult to set up a couple of supporting functions in C
> that allow easy access to them. A lot easier than in Pascal I feel.
> Hans

I'll challenge that statement.  Pascal knows how to make descriptors for you (either automatically or via several lexical operators like %DESCR and %STDESCR) and can accept parameters by descriptors. BLISS only gets you a few lexical functions, the rest is done with macros.