> On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> ...
> It wasn't until the microcomputer era with BASIC, I think that FORTRAN
> wasn't the first HLL to be contemplated for a new architecture.
Not quite true. ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of architectures:
Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes. And I supposed you
could claim that status for Bliss in the case of VAXen, though in a different
sense there was a whole set of high level languages that were there day 1
because the architecture envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).
paul
