22 Sep
2013
22 Sep
'13
9:21 p.m.
On 9/22/2013 9:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/22/2013 07:35 PM, ben wrote:
While those machines, are close to what I was thinking of,the concept
of generic high level languages was to be the next level with a common
run time code.
But did not the classic computers, in the late
50's plan for the very
same idea, with true stack based languages using logic gates rather than
microcode. Getting side tracked with time sharing, is what gave us Basic
in my view. Ben.
Are you perhaps referring to the Burroughs B5000 and succeeding machines
of the line? While it's true that they were pretty much ALGOL-60
machines, you still needed a frontend to do lexical parsing. Are there random-logic lexical parsers?
Had they standardized on I/O I don't see why would not have been
possible. A keyword shift key, with tokens directly input from the
console or punch card encoding.
--Chuck