[Info-vax] Bliss

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:30:02 -0400, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

> There were certainly compilers that generated bliss objects for the
> PDP-11, but they were not hosted on a PDP-11; even the mighty, beloved
> task builder could not make it fit.

Is Bliss more complex than Pascal? It was possible to get a (mostly 
functional) Pascal compiler to fit by breaking it into two passes. The 
Modula-2 compiler for the PDP-11 had no less than 5 passes.