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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.

[pjmlp]

Well, it had bounds checking.

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

[fanf2]

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.