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by reverius42 1064 days ago
What are some of those languages? I'm curious to learn more.
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pjmlp 1064 days ago
Several PL/I dialects e.g. PL/S and PL.8, BLISS, Modula-2, ESPOL/NEWP for example.

Also Pascal and BASIC compilers with several extensions, e.g. VMS Pascal and VMS BASIC.

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fanf2 1064 days ago
BLISS is a typeless word-oriented language like BCPL, so I am surprised to see it in this list. Also I am amused to hear VAX/VMS described as a mainframe operating system.
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pjmlp 1064 days ago
Well, it had bounds checking.

I always call them mainframes, regardless if the name is micro or whatever is the pedantic nomenclature.

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fanf2 1063 days ago
Hmm, section 11.10 of http://wiki.parsec.com/openvms_archive/freewarev70/bliss/bls... says that the built-in vector type does not do bounds checking (tho there are examples illustrating how to define your own vector type that does check).

The string handling functions in chapter 20 require the programmer to pass around separate pointer and length arguments, which is not what I would call proper strings.

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