Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:31:34 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C |
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David Newall wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Nov 30 2007 11:20, Xavier Bestel wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >>> >>>>>> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? >>>>>> >>>>> Why not C# instead ? >>>>> >>>> Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D >>>> >>> I heard of a bash compiler. That would enable development time >>> rationalization and maximize the collaborative convergence of a >>> community-oriented synergy. >>> >>> >> Fortran90 it has to be. > > It used to be written in BCPL; or was that Multics?
BCPL was typeless, as was the successor B (between Bell Labs and GE we write thousands of lines of B, ported to 8080, GE600, etc). C introduced types, and the rest is history. Multics is written in PL/1, and I wrote a lot of PL/1 subset G back when as well. You don't know slow compile until you get a seven pass compiler with each pass on floppy.
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