BLISS is a systems programming language developed by W. A. Wulf and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University beginning in 1970, designed specifically for writing operating systems and other performance-critical software without resorting to assembly language. BLISS is expression-oriented, meaning every construct including control structures produces a value, and it deliberately omits a GOTO statement in favor of structured alternatives. Digital Equipment Corporation adopted BLISS extensively to write parts of the VMS operating system and its own compilers and utilities.
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Paradigmstructured, imperative (procedural) 1 SignificancePerhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later, after which BLISS faded into obscurity. 1 Partially Attested
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BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970.
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Structured, imperative (procedural)
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It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later, after which C became common and BLISS faded into obscurity.
Invented By: William Wulf, Lead paragraph
BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. Wulf
- In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
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