On Jan 15, 2008 6:55 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:09:30AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > > and yet - they had to know assembly in order to see how LISP worked from > > the inside. or are you talking about "LISP machines"? > > The Lisp Machine still had assembly. It just had an architecture very > designed around running lisp. Type safety and checking was done in > hardware, and the register format carried a built-in type tag. And, it was > weird in many other ways too :-) > > Dave
Yep and FORTH machines still had an assembler as well it is just that it was a low level FORTH :) BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
