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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by CalChris on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:20AM (#22694387)
Yeah, it was very readable. It implemented the SOAR processor, Smalltalk On A RISC, which is credited by the Berkeley crowd as the RISC-III.

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-287...

However, I don't think SPARC would be saddled with tagged integers were it not for SOAR.

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