BLISS

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classichasclass•about 1 hour ago

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•about 1 hour ago

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

Joker_vD•about 1 hour ago

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.

goodwillhunting•about 2 hours ago

There's even a compiler for it https://github.com/sergev/bliss-compiler

teh_klev•30 minutes ago

That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:

https://github.com/madisongh/blissc