Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757848AbYC1SWe (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:22:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756022AbYC1SWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:22:24 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:43301 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754337AbYC1SWX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:22:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ho1RzgAwsM+zVfbzxf6OfPM2IZeNXyXtgHrXPbtDramclVsyLTHfUS1XM9WGIPiLZUqM8IiaLEWM8JR6ZPJWWuYdDWp6dRIO+M+qJK5PKJmUosd/dq69B/exfLp3tcqjh/LghivLmpOozhGsIUFE9iaZMqAwetnykUNtmsMoLCQ= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:22:21 +0100 From: bart.vanassche@gmail.com To: "Olivier Cornu" Subject: Re: What would your perfect language for Linux development look like? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7b4bf7ff0803281052j3e5d57c9xf6d1f308c9d9cdb9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7b4bf7ff0803281052j3e5d57c9xf6d1f308c9d9cdb9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 26 On 3/28/08, Olivier Cornu wrote: > I've recently started a toy project: a programming language aimed at > OS development only. > It's nothing revolutionary really and it will very likely never be > used by anyone - except perhaps me: the main intent is to learn more > about programming languages and OS specific needs in this regard (the > idea grew while playing with Linux and Minix C sources and reading > about OS design issues). > > I would be glad to hear you share your experience about C as a > programming language in OS development context, like: > - what missing feature would you like C to have? > - what feature should be removed? > - what kind of language cleanup would you like to see? > In other words, what would your perfect language for Linux development > look like? The following web site might contain interesting background information for you: http://www.osdev.org/ Bart. -- 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/