Re: C++ pushback

Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-02T15:56:06Z

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:55:02 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote:

> linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, J.A. Magallon wrote:

>
> If you hadn't made this next point I would have...
> >
> > But, a master carpenter has many tools. He chooses the best for each
> > task. When you need to make computer hardware do what you want, in
> > a defined manner, in the particular order in which you require,
> > you use assembly language to generate the exact machine-code required.
> > It is possible to compromise a bit and use a slightly higher-level
> > procedural language called C. One loses control of everything with
> > any other language. Note that before C was invented, all operating
> > system code was written in assembly.
>
> Hate to tell you, C came about a decade after MULTICS was written in
> PL/1, and I think DEC had VMS out in BLISS before C. C came from B (as
> did IMP68), which came from BCPL.

and Burroughs used Algol for multi-proc (master/slave, not SMP)
virtual memory OSes in the 1960s. :)

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~Randy