What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Darren New dnew at san.rr.com
Thu Jun 22 12:06:56 EDT 2006


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. :-)

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