Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)
by DonaldFisk on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:48PM
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> The practicalities of PLs aren't at all like spoken natural languages. For one thing, all computers can run any PL with little effort.
But not with equal effort. Machines have been developed to run specific languages (Burroughs mainframes - Algol 60; Lisp Machines - Lisp), and languages have been developed to run on specific machines (C - PDP-11).
But not with equal effort. Machines have been developed to run specific languages (Burroughs mainframes - Algol 60; Lisp Machines - Lisp), and languages have been developed to run on specific machines (C - PDP-11).