Abstract
This chapter presents a survey of high-level language (HLL) computer architecture. There has been interest in using hardware and firmware to implement various computer functions that have been performed by software. The technical and economic feasibility of this approach is because of the advancement of hardware technology and developments in microprogramming techniques. Microprogramming has provided the computer designer with a flexible and effective tool with which to engineer a new class of computers. Much of the research in this area has centered on the development of HLL computer architecture, that is, computer architecture that has been designed to facilitate the interpretation of one or more specific high-level programming languages. Researchers have investigated the influence of programming techniques on the design of computers. Since then, computers have been designed for high-level programming languages as algorithmic language (ALGOL) 60, formula translation (FORTRAN), EULER, programming language one (PL/1), a programming language (APL), and string oriented and symbolic language (SNOBOL).
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