Lisp, the machine language. Was Re: Hallelujah!

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 18:12:02 1999

> But why would anyone want something that was microcoded to run Pascal?

Once upon a time, PASCAL was popular, and many people thought it was the
wave of the future. Then C steamrolled over it.

> Are there any other languages that have gotten microcoded into a processor?

Many. There was APL microcode for several IBM mainframes. And just about
every language that ran on a Xerox D-machine (Alto, Dorado, Dolphin, Dandelion,
etc.) had its own special microcode.
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 18:12:02 BST