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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
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On 26/08/2024 06:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:30:17 +0100, Bart wrote:
> 
>> So what language goes between Assembly and C?
>>
>> There aren't many!
> 
> Quite a few, actually. Elsewhere I mentioned B (the precursor of C), BCPL
> and BLISS.

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.

That doesn't happen in BLISS. If you took this program in normal C:

    int a, b, c;
    b = 10;
    c = 20;
    a = b + c;

    int* p;
    p = &a;

then without that auto-deref feature, you'd have to write it like this:

    int a, b, c;
    *b = 10;
    *c = 20;
    *a = *b + *c;

    int* p;
    *p = a;

(The last two lines are interesting; both would be valid in standard C; 
but the first set initialises p; the second set, compiled as normal C, 
stores a's value into the uninitialised p's target.)