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> There are lots of marginal cases where you can do
> something at the hardware level that you can't map easily into a high
> level language (one of the most obvious ones is (A*B)/C with a double
> length intermediate value (of commonly used languages, only COBOL can
> handle this cleanly).

Forth also handles this cleanly.