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For those who don't know Bliss, here's a quick recap of the language:

In Bliss, a name /uniformly/ represented an address.  Thus "A" was the
address of variable "A", whether static or on the stack.  To get the
/value/ of "A", it had to be preceded by a dereference operator, which
was ".".  So incrementing the value of "A" was done by "A=.A+1;"  Although
the dot was chosen because it was small and unobtrusive, this meant that
it was easily missed in reading a listing, especially if the printer
ribbon (remember printers that had ribbons instead of toner cartridges?)
was marginal.

The canonical error in Bliss, especially for those transitioning from 
traditional languages, was a "dot error", meaning the programmer forgot
to put the necessary dot in.

One day, Phil Karlton (CMU->Xerox->DEC) came to me and said "Well, I just
made my first dot error in SAIL".  Now SAIL was an Algol-derived language.
It didn't even HAVE a "dot" operator!  Naturally I said something like
"Sure, tell me another".

Phil said "Yes, it was the dot which goes over the comma which
terminates a comment".  SAIL used the Algol syntax for comments:
"comment ... ;".  What he had written was "comment ... ," and the next
statement was absorbed into the comment.  
                                    joe