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Five Little Languages and How They Grew
- wglb 17y agoBliss indeed was perhaps the oddest of the lot. The specific instruction that he might have been talking about was the variable-width bitfield pointer that the Dec 10 hardware had that was available in bliss-36. This, interestingly, has found its way into lisp. So far as I know, there were three Bliss languages--Bliss-11, Bliss 32 (vax) and Bliss 36 (Dec 10). It was the first expression language that I had used; not quite functional. And those were the days that they knew how to make nice instruction sets. PDP-10 could just be my favorite.