Exactly. If the world had standardised on something like the Reduceron [1] instead, what we currently consider "low-level" languages would probably look rather

Exactly. If the world had standardised on something like the Reduceron [1] instead, what we currently consider "low-level" languages would probably look rather alien. [1] https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/ https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/