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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <7515@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 Mar 88 13:40:09 GMT
References: <695@unm-la.UUCP> <4583@garfield.UUCP> <2134@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <3201@phri.UUCP> <2424@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2424@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>But BLISS is a machine-dependent language.

I agree with most of your article, but BLISS isn't particularly
machine-dependent.  It is comparable to C in many ways.  I have
seen implementations for three substantially different architectures,
and there may be more.