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Bytecode. Came here looking for "history of". Is always a good lead in to understanding anything. Wanted to know who was first to implement it (or name 'bytecode'), subsequent implementations. [[User:Aspidistra9812|Aspidistra9812]] ([[User talk:Aspidistra9812|talk]]) 03:57, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
:I only have a suggestion: look for material coming out of the compilers / interpreters designed for portability starting in the 1960s, and usually based on the ideas of solving the M*N compiler problem (languages*architectures), which some researchers proposed to solve by defining a universal intermediate language between the M languages and the N computer architectures, making it into a M+N problem. When I hear the term I think of Algol 60 (Randall & Russell: Algol 60 implementation, (1964)), Smalltalk and Pascal, and certainly the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (Andrew Tanenbaum). Tanenbaum's paper on the design of the EM-1 byte code ("DESCRIPTION OF A MACHINE ARCHITECTURE FOR USE WITH BLOCK STRUCTURED LANGUAGE", Informatica Report IR-81) is worth reading. It doesn't use the term 'byte code', but the instruction format is heavily byte-oriented for processing efficiency, and anyone knowing EM-1 would almost certainly interpret the term as a synonym for intermediate code based on the same design principles. At a stretch, Griswold's book on portable SNOBOL4 implementation might be relevant, perhaps also Lisp Machine stuff, and I vaguely remember another author who wrote a lot about portable code (Winter?). Barron's and Pemberton's books on Pascal implementation may also provides clues. [[User:Athulin|Athulin]] ([[User talk:Athulin|talk]]) 09:27, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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