10 May
2024
10 May
'24
2:35 p.m.
On 5/10/24 06:44, Paul Koning wrote:
As for "language to the machine" that's pretty much unheard of. While
there certainly are languages that only were seen on one or a few machines or
architectures -- SYMPL, CYBIL, BLISS, TUTOR -- it isn't because that was the intent of
those languages. I suppose you could pose ESPOL as an example of a language for a
machine, though I suspect it could have been generalized, as C was, if there had been a
desire to do so.
There's a third class that I haven't (yet) mentioned. Design a machine
to solve a particular problem or class of problems. Saxpy was such a
machine; we have bitcoin ASICs and our latest AI ventures.
What was the CM-1 programmed in?
--Chuck