19 Jun
1999
19 Jun
'99
5:37 a.m.
<I've heard that Bliss was not liked within Digital. I'm assuming some
<aspects of NIH along with support issues. Perhaps someone who was there
<might like to comment?
Correct BLISS was not a favorite of the systems people and there was an
effort in the 80s to move a lot of bliss (vax) code to C. It was partly
the portability plus interfacing issues between languages and that C or
Pascal was seen as becomming the more standard languages. I think also
it was considered by more than me to be an esoteric skill that showed little
value outside of DEC or DEC environments.
Allison