Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan...
by nickpsecurity on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:03PM
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I found a paper on a compiler from Pascal subset to microcode. All kinds of cool stuff one can do if microcoded & open for extension. LISP microcode is new to me. You have a link on that one?
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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan...
by hga on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:12PM
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No, all word of mouth, often from the microcoders themselves (Moon and Greenblatt, at least). And it was either a compiler from Lisp to microcode, for making hot code faster, or Lisp primitives implemented in fast microcode. And the virtual machine that implemented the compiler's byte code as well.