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Bleagh

Posted Apr 17, 2012 19:58 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Bleagh by jd
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

C will NOT run well on a Transputer. Occam does NOT run well on an Intel. If anyone actually built a true Object Oriented Processor, neither language would work well on it at all but C++ and Java probably would work just fine.

Anyone with an iAPX432 box care to try and find out? ;-)

Actually, slightly more seriously, some of the LISP machines of the 80s provided a true object floor. Objects were first-class at the instruction level. LISP apparently ran great on it. I wonder if Java or C++ would work there? I suspect straight C++ wouldn't because it allows too much low-level monkeying about.


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