I've always felt that it makes sense for Intel to push programming language innovation, since they are the ones who know what cpus the languages will be running on.
"We were over-hasty," Karl agreed. "Whole space effort has been. Those early scramjets, they were deathtraps." He shook his head. "Both sides. The Yankees kept trying to model the airflows with inadequate computers, and we, we built a gigawatt of nuclear power stations, used the whole Dniester for cooling, to get that damned Mach-18 quarter-scale windtunnel. And we still had disasters."