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BLISS: a language for systems programming

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W. A. Wulf,

D. B. Russell,

A. N. HabermannAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 14, Issue 12

Pages 780 - 790

https://doi.org/10.1145/362919.362936

Published: 01 December 1971 Publication History

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A language, BLISS, is described. This language is designed so as to be especially suitable for use in writing production software systems for a specific machine (the PDP-10): compilers, operating systems, etc. Prime design goals of the design are the ability to produce highly efficient object code, to allow access to all relevant hardware features of the host machine, and to provide a rational means by which to cope with the evolutionary nature of systems programs. A major feature which contributes to the realization of these goals is a mechanism permitting the definition of the representation of all data structures in terms of the access algorithm for elements of the structure.

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Dec. 1971

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