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

[John Dallman]

In article <s3anh4$5am$1 at dont-email.me>, news at cct-net.co.uk (Chris
Townley) wrote:

> Wasn't BCPL the precursor to C?

Yes, via a couple of steps. There was a derivative of BCPL called B,
created at Bell Labs around 1969. It still had the same kind of
typelessness as BCPL and BLISS. Adding types to B was the main change
that produced C. 

John