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BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C became popular and common, and BLISS faded into obscurity.

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Programming language.name
BLISS
Programming language.paradigm
Structured, imperative (procedural)
Programming language.designer
W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, A. N. Habermann
Programming language.developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Programming language.released
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Programming language.latest release version
BLISS-64
Programming language.typing
Typeless
Programming language.scope
Lexical
Programming language.dialects
Common BLISS
Programming language.platform
PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX, PRISM, MIPS, DEC Alpha, IA-32, IA-64, x86-64
Programming language.operating system
Cross-platform
Programming language.influenced by
ALGOL

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1970-00-00
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BLISS
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BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C became popular and common, and BLISS faded into obscurity.

BLISS is a typeless block-structured programming language based on expressions rather than statements, and includes constructs for exception handling, coroutines, and macros. It does not include a goto statement.

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