I would have been blown away if the article made that connection. Heck, I'm blown away that you made the connection. Just to expand a bit on your apropos poin

I would have been blown away if the article made that connection. Heck, I'm blown away that you made the connection. Just to expand a bit on your apropos points: Michael Flynn is the originator of SISD/SIMD/MISD/MIMD computer architecture classifications. He also originated the notion Directly Executable Languages: A Directly Executed Language (DEL) is the interface between the output of a higher level computer language translator and the input to the interpretive process of a computer. New developments in computer technology (especially fast read-write control storage) allow 'soft' computer architectures in which a range of flexible 'machine' or DEL's can be introduced. These DEL's are in many respects unlike conventional instruction sets, especially in format flexibility and specified operations. Ref: http://books.google.com/books/about/Directly_Executed_Languages.html?id=ynn6ngEACAAJ http://books.google.com/books/about/Directly_Executed_Langua... (As an undergrad I was fascinated by the work, which was introduced to me by Bob Wedig and Gus Uht at CMU ECE, as well as their extensions for automated concurrency detection and the unit which kept track of which instructions had and had not executed: the Advanced Execution Matrix.)