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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <69707a5d-87f0-42ec-aca2-631bd6a7f3e9 at googlegroups.com>,
	John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

Well, I use the "99 bottles" collection for testing things. For example,
we have a High school Porgramming Contest coming up next month (My last!!)
and I am busy setting up an enviroment for the contestants that supports
their languages of choice.  So far, C, C++, Java and Python.  I have
chosen jGrasp which has a nice IDE, is a lightweight system (I need to
support a bunch of students on just a couple of Windows Servers, last
year we used Eclipse and they brought the machine to its knees!!) and it
supports all four of thiose languages.  I used "99 bottle" to test them.

In honesty, I have never used Bliss and couldn't tell you if the program
was good or not.  Just pointing out that its existence is publicly made
avaialble.  Heck, they even have it in DIBOL (which I do know!!).

bill




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