On: MIPS Becomes RISC-V

[jacquesm]

> I realize I've sort of just re-invented Javascript.

You've re-invented UCSD P-code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine

[brucehoult → jacquesm]

BCPL ocode is quite a bit older the UCSD P-code.

The BCPL compiler always outputs ocode. Then a back end for the particular system statically generates machine code (or assembly language)

Back in 1983 I helped take a BCPL running on a VAX and add a M6809 back end to it.

[jacquesm → brucehoult]

Ah yes, it even rates a mention on that Wikipedia page. Thank you for pointing this out. 1966! Funny how all these supposedly 'new' concepts really go back all the way to the beginning.

[pjmlp → jacquesm]

Like safe systems languages, first one 1961.