Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964902AbWEBP4G (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 11:56:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964901AbWEBP4F (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 11:56:05 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:12705 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964904AbWEBP4D (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 11:56:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:58:20 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-os@analogic.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: C++ pushback Message-Id: <20060502085820.2e9c6ed3.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <44514BC6.6020603@tmr.com> References: <4024F493-F668-4F03-9EB7-B334F312A558@iomega.com> <444D44F2.8090300@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1145915533.1635.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060425001617.0a536488@werewolf.auna.net> <44514BC6.6020603@tmr.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1283 Lines: 31 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. :) --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/