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

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:01:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:

> 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.

That's it. I still use BCPL sometimes, and I did a compiler for VAX/VMS 
around 1985. We used it a lot.

I ran a UK BCPL User Group for a while. Started using BCPL in 1973.

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