Re: One other possible reason for the C predominance

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:12:23 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:

> Yannick Duchêne wrote:
>> So C, as language, became something to which architectures adapted,  
>> instead of the opposite.
>
> Not sure about that.  I think the hardware architectures became
> simpler and more orthogonal simply because the cost of memory was
> dropping, such that compactness of executable code became less and
> less of an issue.  The trend continued with RISC.

Yes, I abused the interpretation here, you're right.

> No, C was not a precursor; Lisp ("discovered" in 1954) was.  Lisp even
> produced a hardware architecture optimized for running Lisp bytecode,
> see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine.
That was not exactly what I was attempting to say (this was related to my  
above erroneous interpretation).



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