On 1/26/2018 2:22 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the DECision to price it higher than the market would bear.
Indeed! I was fortunate to get access to BLISS in college thanks to DEC's CSLG program, but it was their second-most expensive compiler license (after Ada), so virtually no one outside of DEC used it. When they originally released Alpha, they weren't planning to make the BLISS compiler available, but I and others worked to try to get DEC to change that. As I'm sure you know, in the end, they released it with a free license for both VAX and Alpha (and Itanium), but it was far too late for most people to have any interest in adopting it. I still do some BLISS coding, but I'm one of the few that I know of still doing it.
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