[Info-vax] Bliss

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 7/12/2024 7:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

The Bliss master in residence at VSI will have to answer that.

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                     --- Rob