[cctalk] Re: Wang TTL BASIC

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On May 4, 2025, at 3:06 PM, Johan Helsingius via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 04/05/2025 20:39, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> A language for which specific machines have been built a number of times is 
>> FORTH
> 
> Another is Lisp.

Good point.  And yet another is ALGOL 60 -- the Burroughs mainframes are stack 
machines nicely matched to what ALGOL needs, and Burroughs created several 
special-purpose languages based on ALGOL for that machine.  The OS uses one 
(ESPOL); there is one for the communications machinery (DC-ALGOL) and it has a 
compiled ALGOL variant called WFL (work flow language) for the batch job 
control.  (As an analogy, imagine if "bash" were a compiler rather than an 
interpreter.)

        paul