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

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:23:47 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

> 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.

I have now found it. Looks complete, too. Would need to coss compile to 
get it up and running. I'll do that sometime.

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