linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:31:34 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

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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