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

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:43:22 +0000, David Wade wrote:

> The big difference is that "B" has only a single type, the machine word,
> and vectors of machine words. Arrays are constructed from vectors of
> addresses of vectors...
> 
> You can of course store characters, integers, addresses and floating
> point data in these words. You tell "B" how to treat the content of thse
> words by the operators you use. So there are integer and floating point
> operators.

Which is pretty much BCPL.

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