Re: "The Machine" and Ada (blog post)

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:50:18 AM UTC-5, Victor Porton wrote:
> Read my blog post why I recommend to use Ada on The Machine (a new computer 
> architecture by Hewlett Packard):
> 
> http://portonsoft.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/the-machine-and-ada/
> 
> We should create a strong coupling of The Machine and Ada, for success of 
> both projects.

Victor, this thread never really discussed your technical content.  Strong coupling or not, what do you foresee as the changes needed to compiled mostly-imperative (slightly-declarative) programming languages such as Ada, to best support HP's new computer architecture?  Or for that matter, why is Ada better suited for HP's new computer architecture than, say, C or interpreted scripts, say, Python?

What I am looking for is something to the effect of:  Forth was a language that is best suited for the era where accessing DRAM was only slightly slower than accessing registers within a microprocessor.  Once the rate of intra-processor accesses to registers and various levels of cache accelerated faster the rate of DRAM accesses throughout the 1980s through 200Xs decades, Forth's very chattery tiny little functions and numerous stack operations became painfully slow compared with compiled machine-code in, say, C during those decades.  Changing or tweaking the computer architecture does have impact in imperative programming languages.