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What are some of those languages? I'm curious to learn more.

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Several PL/I dialects e.g. PL/S and PL.8, BLISS, Modula-2, ESPOL/NEWP for example. Also Pascal and BASIC compilers with several extensions, e.g. VMS Pascal and VMS BASIC.
  • fanf2 3y ago
    BLISS is a typeless word-oriented language like BCPL, so I am surprised to see it in this list. Also I am amused to hear VAX/VMS described as a mainframe operating system.
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      Well, it had bounds checking. I always call them mainframes, regardless if the name is micro or whatever is the pedantic nomenclature.
      • fanf2 3y ago
        Hmm, section 11.10 of http://wiki.parsec.com/openvms_archive/freewarev70/bliss/blslref.pdf http://wiki.parsec.com/openvms_archive/freewarev70/bliss/bls... says that the built-in vector type does not do bounds checking (tho there are examples illustrating how to define your own vector type that does check). The string handling functions in chapter 20 require the programmer to pass around separate pointer and length arguments, which is not what I would call proper strings.