Bliss was Re: DEC program listing
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Aug 16 09:38:05 CDT 2005
> As is Bliss, of course. If you want a high level language, use
> Pascal. If you want one suitable for system programming, there's
> Modula-2 (which was used by DEC for that purpose).
It's nice to finally hear Modula-2 in approving tones; I hear too many whines
about it. I've done some useful programming in Modula-2 and for old Mac
programming, the MacMeTH M-2 compiler generates wonderful code, small
executables, and good compatibility with System versions going back as far
as 1.1. (!)
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