Re: Which programming Language

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > >                      Readability and maintainability of "assembly"
> > > language.
> >
> > Yep.  The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with assembly 
> > programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN and COBOL 
> > instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is designed with HLL 
> > features.
>
> The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in mind.

Patterned after the PDP-11 (), and DEC always liked orthogonal CISC 
chips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#History
    The MACSS team drew heavily on the influence of minicomputer
    processor design, such as the PDP-11 and VAX systems, which were
    similarly microcoded.

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