15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
6:12 a.m.
>>>> "Huw" == Huw Davies
<huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au> writes:
Huw> On 15/08/2005, at 5:40 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> That sounds familiar, there's Bliss-16 and
Bliss-11; one is from
> Carnegie-Mellon and compiles on a 10, the other from DEC and
> compiles on a VAX. But they all are Bliss, which is a truly
> atrocious language.
Huw> I always wonder why people think BLISS is such a bad language. I
Huw> know that many people inside DEC don't like it as they were
Huw> forced to use it as the new "standard" language but personally
Huw> BLISS is one of my favorites.
Because it is so easy to write bugs with it, and so hard to find them.
The use of . is quite warped and utterly against high level language
principles. (The only thing that even comes close is FORTH.)
Watching someone waste several days tracking down a bug (program
running wild) that turned out to be one missing . convinced me to stay
away from Bliss.
paul