clipka wrote:
> How high is the influence of the most favorite programming languages on the
> further development hardware design?

Exactly. The Intel line of x86s was originally designed for Pascal. You can 
tell by looking at the four segments (which map exactly to Pascal data 
spaces) and the "ret n" instruction, even if there wasn't historical 
documentation backing it up.

> Maybe the latter is somewhat comforting. Not that the pure *existence* of
> dangerous machines would be.

I figure if you're writing any code that kills >100 people when it crashes, 
you probably shouldn't be writing it in a language that wasn't designed for 
that. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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