In 1970 a little language called BLISS emerged from Carnegie Mellon University. It was a systems language, meant for operating systems and compilers. It was designed, in part, as a response to Dijkstra's famous Go To Considered Harmful paper. It had no data types. It used the most bizzare form of the pointer I've ever seen. And it was a direct competitor to C. Sound interesting, yet? Selected Sources: <a href= "https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/dec/decus/pdp10/DECUS-10-118-PartII_BlissReadings_Dec71.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-link-auto= "">https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/dec/decus/pdp10/DECUS-10-118-PartII_BlissReadings_Dec71.pdf</a> - Readings on BLISS <a href= "https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bliss.pdf" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bliss.pdf</a> - A History of BLISS

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