Language-specific hardware has been done before, but do these really make sense? I remember excitement at the prospect of "Java CPUs". Did any of them become

Language-specific hardware has been done before, but do these really make sense? I remember excitement at the prospect of "Java CPUs". Did any of them become commercially or even technically important? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor