Bliss was Re: DEC program listing

[Huw Davies]

On 16/08/2005, at 11:34 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> 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).  Or Algol variants
> (such as Espol, used in the Burroughs mainframe OS).

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that BLISS-10 (and BCPL) weren't. I did  
some Modula-2 programming but like many other languages (Algol-60,  
Algol-68) it's just a note in the history books now.

Of course, Ada is the solution, I'm just not quite sure I remember  
the question :-)

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