On 11/15/08 8:28 PM, "Jeff Savit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A similar machine was the Lilith, created at > ETH Zurich, and oriented around Modula-2. I never saw one personally, > but I recall reading that it had a very stylish teak wood cabinet! Very heavy, as well. Takes two *strong* people to move one. Takes a serious cart to move one very far. > Anyhow, language based processors seem to be a seductive design pattern > that hasn't really gained momentum for general purpose computing. Don't forget the Xerox D-machines and the Symbolics, and the LMI machines as well. Symbolics still has a lot of applications in DOD space, and there are still hundreds of D-machines and D-machine descendants in the space program. > Anyone else want to 'fess up to having worked with UCSD Pascal or Modula-2? Many, many hours with both. And p-System FORTRAN, and the p-Writing Tools package developed at UCSD, which was a brilliant set of writing assistant gadgets for teaching technical writing, and an ancestor of Google Apps by marriage. Modula, less time, but contributed a fair amount of doc kvetching to the CMS Modula port. P-System was more than just the languages -- the whole environment was pretty slick. It had a very decent editor and (if you liked Lotus 123), a fairly intuitive interface. It'd be a great start for a very lightweight Java OS that actually could be useful. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
