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Early Pascals did. P-Code [0] it was called. I don't think it was really about easy of compilation. It was about ease of portability, at least early on. [0]
by oso2k 6y ago
Early Pascals did. P-Code [0] it was called. I don't think it was really about easy of compilation. It was about ease of portability, at least early on.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
- FullyFunctional 6y agoIt was and it was key to why Pascal became so successful. Porting the VM of the UCSD-p machine was so much easier than writing a new backend so Pascal spread like wildfire. I think I even saw a Commodore 64 port at some point.