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First job out of college was coding in BLISS for automated test equipment at Teradyne. A very interesting language with a powerful macro facility, and as other
by ngvrnd 6y ago
First job out of college was coding in BLISS for automated test equipment at Teradyne. A very interesting language with a powerful macro facility, and as others have pointed out, expression semantics for almost everything. Another quirk was the requirement to dereference pointers in all circumstances with the . operator.
- nicoburns 6y ago> expression semantics for almost everything. I've never understood why languages don't do this. There seem to be lots of advantages and almost no disadvantages.
- _8ljf 6y agoC. The popularity and mindshare of C means most languages of the last 50 years have selectively evolved to be C knockoffs. A pity Bliss wasn’t their role model instead, but that’s the value of market positioning: you don’t need the best product, just the product that everyone knows.
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd now we are trying to fix 50 years of memory corruption bugs being fixed multiple times per month.