Well, we built a compiler in bliss 36 so I can address that a bit.
Bliss isn’t like Fortran and is quite a different beast from C. It had a practical way to define structures. It defined code structures as expressions rather than statements. I feel it was a a little higher level than C. But not higher level like PL/I. There were different languages for 36 bit machines (PDP-10) 32 bit machines and I think even 16 bit machines.
Bliss isn’t like Fortran and is quite a different beast from C. It had a practical way to define structures. It defined code structures as expressions rather than statements. I feel it was a a little higher level than C. But not higher level like PL/I. There were different languages for 36 bit machines (PDP-10) 32 bit machines and I think even 16 bit machines.