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

[Ian Miller]

On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 8:57:28 PM UTC, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:01:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote: 
> 
> > In article <s3anh4$5am$1... at dont-email.me>, ne... 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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 I used BCPL on the BBC B in preference to BASIC. I didn't know there was a BCPL compiler for VMS.