Episode 148 - Is BLISS Ignorance?

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:
bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/dec/decus/pd… - Readings on BLISS
cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/… - A History of BLISS