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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> BLISS is a rather strange language. For something supposedly low level than
> C, it doesn't have 'goto'.
>
> It is also typeless.
>
> There is also a key feature that sets it apart from most HLLs: usually if
> you declare a variable A, then you can access A's value just by writing A;
> its address is automatically dereferenced.

Not always.  This is where left- and right-evaluation came in.  On the
left of an assignment A denotes a "place" to receive a value.  On the
right, it denotes a value obtained from a place.  CPL used the terms and
C got them via BCPL's documentation.  Viewed like this, BLISS just makes
"evaluation" a universal concept.

-- 
Ben.