Is this a true statement: Part II

[Steve Holden]

The Lilith machine was also programmed only in a high-level language.
Niklaus Wirth claimed they did most of the bootstrap using an oscilloscope
("not even a logic analyser") to debug things.

regards
 Steve
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"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 11:17:31 GMT, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
>
> >>You could write an operating system that could only be directly
> >>programmed in Python.
> >
> >I'm not sure how.  Nobody has yet come up with an operating system that
> >could only be directly programmed in C, or Lisp, or Algol, or Java,
> >despite implementing operating systems in all four.
>
> Weren't Symbolics machines circa 1980 directly programmable
> in Lisp?
>
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