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

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:58:56 -0700, Ian Miller wrote:

> 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.

I've just looked and, annoyingly, I can't find it.

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