BLISS

My favorite game playing in my mind is doing timeline revelsals, what if browsers used bliss and then someone invented JavaScript.

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.

hyperhello an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Variables were pointers and you could dereference with a dot. Another step towards writing what you mean.

	▲	Joker_vD 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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.

khaledh 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A very notable implementation in BLISS was the VAX/VMS operating system.

	▲	teh_klev 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates: https://github.com/madisongh/blissc