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From Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject Re: Architecture / Instruction Set / Language co-design.
Date Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 15, 1:57 am, Andrew Reilly <areilly...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:53 -0400, Roberto Waltman wrote:
> > Recently I've become (very) interested in Wirth's Lilith/Modula-2
> > workstation, which leads me to ask:
>
> > What other systems were developed in a similar fashion?
>
> > That is, to support mainly one language with the language guiding the
> > architectural design.
>
> Bit of a stretch, perhaps: the AS-400 series of minis vs ?Cobol? ?PL/1?
>

RPG.
Never touched AS/400 myself. From what I heard from friends back in
early 90s, RPG was considered the HLL of choice on this machines.

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