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From: nospam@nospam (John Black)
Subject: Re: Can Ada by popularized faster ?
Date: 1997/10/26
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Fascinating.  Can anyone here tell me what language Windows/DOS was
written in?

>1. Mac OS was written in Pascal.  Even in the Mac heyday,
>Pascal was never commercially popular.

>4. The AmigaOS was written in (I think) B, or BPL,
>or something like that.  The OS was quite wonderful
>and well ahead of its time as a desktop OS.  Didn't 
>do much for the underlying language, though.