Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Bill Davidsen
2007-11-30T23:16:06Z

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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