31 Dec
2008
31 Dec
'08
10:28 p.m.
On 31 Dec 2008 at 13:27, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Well, the Burroughs B5000 was purportedly an Algol machine; there
have been CPU designs to eat UCSD Pascal bytecodes and Java bytecodes
and there have been various LISP machines. But none, AFAIK, to
actually lexically parse program text input in hardware. I suppose
1401 Autocoder might be in that league, if you consider Autocoder to
be a "language".
I believe that Intel actively discouraged programming in assembly on
the i860, given the mind-bending instruction scheduling issues.
Cheers,
Chuck
(Interesting
question, though - I wonder what a CPU might look like where you
could just throw C source code at it, for instance :)
Well, there *was* the AT&T Hobbit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Hobbit
Not quite that, but still optimized for C, allegedly. Never worked with
the architecture myself.