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BLISS: a language for systems programming
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Volume 14 ,  Issue 12  (December 1971) table of contents
Pages: 780 - 790  
Year of Publication: 1971
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
W. A. Wulf  Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
D. B. Russell  SRC Atlas Laboratory, Berks, England
A. N. Habermann  Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

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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EPL reference manual, Project MAC, April 1966.
 
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Burroughs B5500 Extended Algol reference manual. Burroughs Corp., Detroit, Mich.
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Bliss reference manual. Comput. Sci. Dep. Rep., Carnegie- Mellon U., Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 15, 1970.
 
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POP-10 reference handbook. Digital Equip. Corp., Maynard, Mass., 1970.
 
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Lang, Charles A. SAL-Systems Assembly Language. Proc. AFIPS 1969 SJCC, Vol. 34, AFIPS Press, Montvale, N.J., pp. 543-555.
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