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Is it possible to create a computer processor whose bare metal/assembly language is closer to higher level languages?

A bit of context.

I know that, in a way, x86-64 architectures use CISC, "Complex Instruction Set", which means it has more commands than ARM, which is RISC, "Reduced Instruction Set". In a way, CISC is "halfway" into adding more functions to the language, though Assembly is still significantly less human readable than C

SectorLISP and SectorForth are interesting ideas that left me wondering, is it possible to make an architecture whose bare metal language is easier to understand and closer to higher level languages, rather than some variation of Assembly?

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Photonic tensor CPUs and analogue iterative machines show a lot of promise. However I think human assisted AI or even AI alone are more likely to take over Assembly level programming before photonic computing has that much of an impact

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