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>Uh, yes and no. Compilers for _some_ languages may be easier to
>write for RISC but having recently been working on a COBOL compiler
>for the 88K I can tell you that a _huge_ amount of work is involved
>in handling commercial data types (decimal and variations of decimal).

So, just out of curiosity:

	1) how much work relative to the work involved on CISCs with
	   decimal instructions, counting both the compiler work *and* the
	   incremental CPU design work for the decimal instructions for
	   *all* generations of the CISC (unless, of course, the compiler
	   work for the RISC has to be redone for subsequent generations)?

	2) how much work relative to the work involved on CISCs without
	   decimal instructions, or at least without the whizzo ones on
	   370s and VAXes and the like?