BLISS

5 comments

• dvh 14 minutes ago
  My favorite game playing in my mind is doing timeline revelsals, what if browsers used bliss from the beginning and then someone invented JavaScript and put it in browser. Would you stick to bliss?
• classichasclass 46 minutes ago
  An important language in my younger years, since many Atari System 2 games (using the T-11 "PDP-on-a-chip") were written in it.
• hyperhello 1 hour ago
  Variables were pointers and you could dereference with a dot. Another step towards writing what you mean.
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  • Joker_vD 46 minutes ago
    Neatly removes the lhs/rhs distinction in the compiler, although in practice tracking during the translation whether evaluating e.g. "a[i]" needs to end with DEREF or not ain't that onerous.

    But "The Design of an Optimizing Compiler" by Wulf et al. is an interesting read nonetheless; especially if you wonder how people did register allocation before Chaitin's seminal paper.
• goodwillhunting 1 hour ago
  There's even a compiler for it https://github.com/sergev/bliss-compiler
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  • teh_klev 30 minutes ago
    That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:

    https://github.com/madisongh/blissc
• khaledh 24 minutes ago
  A very notable implementation in BLISS was the VAX/VMS operating system.