<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
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 09:37:50 BST