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The only one of these that I can find that were before Bliss was the Burroughs effort, which a computer scientist acquaintance said was a universal counter exam
by wglb 6y ago
The only one of these that I can find that were before Bliss was the Burroughs effort, which a computer scientist acquaintance said was a universal counter example to how languages were built.
So if this cronology is correct, my statement should have clarified that it was the first (save for the Burroughs example) to have those features.
- pjmlp 6y agoBurroughs is still being sold commercially as Unisys ClearPath, so at least NEWP is in a better shape in 2020 than BLISS. Not sure what being a counter example means. As for the rest, yeah you are right, BLISS came right in 1970.
- wglb 6y agoThe comment about universal counterexample was coined by Arthur Sale, then a professor of CS at University of Tasmania. In particular, he was referring to the B 6700 and C's presumption of NULL being a zero just would not work with that hardware, which had its own unique way to describe null. Another less dramatic example was the Burroughs 5500 and the fact that addresses were in decimal (bcd)--no binary in sight. Yes, I know of no running Bliss, but I would put that as due to DEC disappearing.