On 10 Feb 1999 01:54:01 GMT
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote:
> In article <36C0DB78.4F0031A9@pobox.com>, Mark Lord
> <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
> >From this evening's chat session at msnbc:
> >...
> >>[Chris_MSNBC says]:
> >> <Eric Murray>: what programming laungauge is used in linux, is it
> all C
> >> code? What do you think of Java, and will any launguage replace C
> as
> >> the dominant language
> >>
> >>[Linus_Torvalds- says:]
> >> The kernal itself is low level assembly language....it's just how
> things
> >> are done.
>
> Oh egads.
>
> I wasn't actually typing - the company firewall makes that
> impossible,
> and I don't like irc anyway, so I was actually on the phone to
> people
> and they transcribed.
>
> Is there a transcript anywhere, just so that I can check?
>
Love it when they mis-quote or mis-type you? I think something along
the lines of the heart is assembly would be more accurate than what
those dopes put down. IAE the 'glue' of the kernel is the low-level
assembler but the brains hasta be the C :)
Anyway, I'm braindead.
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Michael Loftis
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