Modern "CISC" architectures are actually RISC with a conversion layer stapled in front of it, that's not very convincing... Also, many VLIW purists will claim

Modern "CISC" architectures are actually RISC with a conversion layer stapled in front of it, that's not very convincing... Also, many VLIW purists will claim (with some veracity also) that Itanium's EPIC != VLIW