Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

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?
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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.)