4 May
2025
4 May
'25
9:17 p.m.
On May 4, 2025, at 3:06 PM, Johan Helsingius via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 04/05/2025 20:39, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Good point. And yet another is ALGOL 60 -- the Burroughs mainframes are stack machines
nicely matched to what ALGOL needs, and Burroughs created several special-purpose
languages based on ALGOL for that machine. The OS uses one (ESPOL); there is one for the
communications machinery (DC-ALGOL) and it has a compiled ALGOL variant called WFL (work
flow language) for the batch job control. (As an analogy, imagine if "bash"
were a compiler rather than an interpreter.)
paul
A language for which specific machines have been
built a number of times is FORTH
Another is Lisp.