[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 11/12/2021 1:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-11, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2021 4:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2021 3:57 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>>
>>>> You remember correctly. The hardwired '24 line terminal' assumption pissed me
>>>> off and a few times I looked at it I said no way I can fix that spaghetti
>>>> code. But one day the planets were aligned or something, and I just did it.
>>>
>>> Macro-32 ?
>>
>> BLISS-32
>>
> 
> Same difference. :-)
  
No, it's not.  While it's true that one can write bad code in any language,
BLISS, due its procedural nature, does not default to spaghetti code.

While the EDT code can be confusing (due to lack of comments), the code flow
isn't that bad.

What can be confusing in BLISS is the use of nested macros, where a single
BLISS "statement" can expand into several pages of code.

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                       -- Rob