Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

[Bill Davidsen]

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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