Bliss was Re: DEC program listing

[Huw Davies]

On 15/08/2005, at 11:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> 3) Everything is an lvalue. BLISS uses the "." operator to get the
>> contents of an lvalue. So what in most other languages would be
>> written as i := i + 1 becomes i := .i + 1, unless of course you want
>> to put the address of the location after i into it.
>>
>
> Interesting. Is there a BLISS language description out there  
> somewhere?

Wulf et al. wrote an article describing BLISS-10 which was published  
in CACM. A quick google gives
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?BLISS-ARTICLE as  
one place it can be downloaded from.

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