Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758258AbXK3XQG (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:16:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754741AbXK3XPz (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:15:55 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:36959 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752943AbXK3XPy (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:15:54 -0500 Message-ID: <47509D56.7010605@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:31:34 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Newall CC: Jan Engelhardt , Xavier Bestel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Ben.Crowhurst@stellatravel.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C References: <474EAD18.6040408@stellatravel.co.uk> <1196416960.20567.205.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> <20071130190742.4B7C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <1196418013.20567.211.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> <47501C86.1020907@davidnewall.com> In-Reply-To: <47501C86.1020907@davidnewall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 37 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. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/