34 pointsby tosh3 hours ago5 comments

dvh29 minutes ago
My favorite game playing in my mind is doing timeline revelsals, what if browsers used bliss from the beginning and then someone invented JavaScript and put it in browser. Would you stick to bliss?
hyperhello2 hours ago
Variables were pointers and you could dereference with a dot. Another step towards writing what you mean.
- Joker_vDan hour ago
  Neatly removes the lhs/rhs distinction in the compiler, although in practice tracking during the translation whether evaluating e.g. "a[i]" needs to end with DEREF or not ain't that onerous.
  But "The Design of an Optimizing Compiler" by Wulf et al. is an interesting read nonetheless; especially if you wonder how people did register allocation before Chaitin's seminal paper.
classichasclassan hour ago
An important language in my younger years, since many Atari System 2 games (using the T-11 "PDP-on-a-chip") were written in it.
goodwillhunting2 hours ago
There's even a compiler for it https://github.com/sergev/bliss-compiler
- teh_klev44 minutes ago
  That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:
  https://github.com/madisongh/blissc
khaledh39 minutes ago
A very notable implementation in BLISS was the VAX/VMS operating system.