newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Roger Ivie]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
>> From: "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk>
>> I've always regarded "C" as more of a "high level macro assembler", I 
>> personally don't regard it as a high level language as such - sort of a 
>> halfway house.
>
> The only higher level languages that I've worked with that
> I could say were close to assembly were Forth and LISP. That is
> only because there were machines made that were dedicated to
> that particular lanuage.

There was once a machine dedicated to running FORTRAN. See chapter 31
of Gordon Bell's book:

http://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/computer_structures__readings_and_examples/00000383.htm

> C doesn't fit well onto any of the processors that I've seen lately.

"Lately" is a mighty big qualifier for a language that's been around
as long as C...
-- 
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net