Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:57:19 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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One of the early programming languages I came across was POP-2. This
was fully dynamic and heap-based, like Lisp, but also had an operand
stack.

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In Forth you can define VALUEs that work like these POP-11 variables.

Never saw much point in Forth. I suppose in the early days when memories
were smaller and CPUs were slower, it gave you something a little bit
better than assembler, but not by much.

Besides garbage collection, POP-2 also had macros and custom operators.