[Info-vax] BLISS, was: Re: VMS on ARM, was: Re: Small x86-64 servers, PCs

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/22/2021 2:26 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 22/03/2021 18:18, John Dallman wrote:
>> Having read the 1987 BLISS Reference Manual, I agree. Most young
>> programmers don't want to learn assembly languages, and while BLISS is
>> not an assembly language, it is - quite deliberately - rather close to
>> the metal.
>>
>> It is similar in intent and capability to BCPL ("Basic" in BCPL has
>> nothing to do with the BASIC programming language), which uses the same
>> kinds of data types. However, BCPL feels more like a higher-level
>> language, while BLISS feels more like assembler. What make me think that?

> Wasn't BCPL the precursor to C?

The story is that C is based on B and B is based on BCPL.

It may be the same way that Windows NT is based on VMS. I don't
know neither B nor BCPL.

Arne