[Info-vax] portable sequential file formats (was: Re: Couple of questions on VMS -> world)

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 11:36:17 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Or, there is this:
> 
> module NINTY_NINE_BOTTLES_CT (main=BOTTLES) =
> !
> !   "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"
> !   using BLISS on DIGITAL's Alpha OpenVMS
> !   by Ron Brender, brender at zko.dec.com
> !

I've seen this before in the 99 bottles website.

Ron is a good friend but I think he did a disservice by using BLISS' preprocessor to simply generate 99 PUT_TEXT statements.  Cute?  Yes.  An example of BLISS that most people could read & understand?  No.