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In article <409@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>
>Certain high-level languages make certain assumptions about an underlying
>machine, or more usually, an underlying "virtual" machine.  Most attempts
>to optimize a processor to a specific language seem to focus at making
>the processor instruction set the "virtual" machine instruction set.
>Some examples (I may make mistakes so please correct any inaccurate info):

[ lot's of good info on hardware specifically designed for special purpose
langauges (Lisp, Forth, SmallTalk,...) deleted ]

>Anyway, I hope this sheds some light,
>-Eric

Well, I'm a little embarassed because I didn't even consider things
like Lisp machines.  What caught my attention was the poster's claim
that RISC was optimized for "C" [as opposed to Pascal].  The
differences between the hardware requirements for these two language
were less apparent.  Thanks for such an informative reply.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.