Timeline for Have programming languages driven hardware development?
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| Jan 23, 2019 at 18:58 | comment | added | hobbs | On a more hobby and somewhat less retro front, the J1 is another Forth-optimized CPU. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 23:48 | comment | added | dave | For other bass-ackwards computers, see the English Electric KDF9. Rather than 'an accumulator' in the manner of its contemporaries, it had a 16-deep nesting store ('stack' to the youth of today) for expression evaluation. The arithmetic orders were zero-address. Note this was not a full stack in the manner of the B5000; it was more limited in applicability. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | BoredBsee | @Wilson, bass-ackwards is a non technical joke. It translates to "ass backwards", implying doing things in a strange reverse order such as walking backwards, with your ass in front. If you type it bass-ackwards, the joke becomes self referential. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 16:22 | history | edited | RichF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed typo
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| Jan 22, 2019 at 15:20 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | I was thinking of Forth almost as soon as I saw the question, but I didn't know a specific Forth-optimized processor so I didn't post an answer. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 14:36 | comment | added | RichF | @Neil Couldn't edit previous comment in time. The last phrase should be in bold: 3 2 5 + * (No parenthesis needed because you think on the stack.) | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 14:28 | comment | added | RichF | @Wilson Move the 'b' 4 characters to the right. Logic in Forth is opposite to most other languages. Parameters are generally on the stack and used in an object object action order. Compare this to action(object1, object2) order of most other languages. I mentioned RPN calculators because they are the same way. Instead of 3*(2+5)=, you would use **3 2 5 + ***. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | Neil | @wilson I suspect it's a Forth joke, but it went over my head too. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 13:13 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | What does "bass-ackwards" mean? | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 7:04 | history | answered | RichF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |