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From: brianm@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Brian Miller)
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Subject: Re: Algol, and language design
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Date: 2 Aug 90 13:48:22 GMT
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In article <CEY4QND@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <2406@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>> What language allows carrying globals in registers across recursion?

>Any language. All that is required is a good inter-procedural optimiser.
>That's an implementation detail, not a language feature.

	And as someone pointed out, a cpu with register windows will
handle inter-procedural globals *and* parameters without compiler
support.  Example:  Berkley RISC I + II.