What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Sun Jun 25 08:40:29 EDT 2006
Darren New schrieb:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>> 360-family assembler, yes. 8086-family assembler, not so much.
>
> And Burroughs B-series, not at all. There was one "ADD" instruction, and
> it looked at the data in the addresses to determine whether to add ints
> or floats. :-)
I heard that the Telefunken TR series had a tagged architecture.
This seems roughly equivalent to what the B-series did (does?).
Regards,
Jo
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