Not sure what you mean here... Fortran I had a damn good optimizer, and the papers on it introduced a whole lot of terminology (e.g., as above, "basic block") w

Not sure what you mean here... Fortran I had a damn good optimizer, and the papers on it introduced a whole lot of terminology (e.g., as above, "basic block") which is still in use. And it was written for the 704, in assembly.