BLISS

BLISS is a historical programming language created in 1969. BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University by W. A. Wulf, D. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Example code from Wikipedia:

MODULE E1 (MAIN = CTRL) =
BEGIN
FORWARD ROUTINE
    CTRL,
    STEP;
ROUTINE CTRL =
!+
! This routine inputs a value, operates on it, and
! then outputs the result.
!-
    BEGIN
    EXTERNAL ROUTINE
        GETNUM,     ! Input a number from terminal
        PUTNUM;     ! Output a number to terminal
    LOCAL
        X,          ! Storage for input value
        Y;          ! Storage for output value
    GETNUM(X);
    Y = STEP(.X);
    PUTNUM(.Y)
    END;
ROUTINE STEP(A) =
!+
! This routine adds 1 to the given value.
!-
    (.A+1);
END
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Last updated October 14th, 2019