Re: Fortran vs. C (was Re: Ken & Klaus.)

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:40:43 -0300

begin In <3_mdneFfjs-GnsncRVn-sA@comcast.com>, on 09/24/2004
   at 06:20 AM, Lin ©nut <lin ©nut@bone.com> said:

>What is the most suitable language for developing and OS, and what OS
>is developed using it?

Well, operating systems have been written in Ada, ALGOL[1], BLISS, C,
JOVIAL, NELLIAC, PL/I, PL/S and quite a few others. I'd say that any
language with strong typing, string primitives, dynaminc allocation
and enforcement of array boundaries is suitable, with a small amount
of supporting code in assembler.

[1] And variants called DC ALGOL and ESPOL. 

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