Comment by protomyth
12 years ago
> What if historically programmers tried to use FORTH for "AI" and LISP as a "portable assembler"?
Then I guess the Burroughs B5000 and its ilk might have become a popular machine for AI research. We would have had Stack Machines instead of LISP Machines.
I'll just throw that in here, as I always do, in case people want a nice historical overview (yet detailed) of stack machines : http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~laforest/Second-Generation_Stac...
Lisp Machines were mostly stack machines.