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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<slrnbc2rr1.djv.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>...
> On 13 May 2003 10:30:08 -0700, soft-eng <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote:
> > Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<slrnbc0pdt.1o8.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>...
> > 
> >> > Because the strong type-checking of today's C-family languages
> >> > has evolved rather than been dictated, it has had to retain
> >> > that freedom.
> >> 
> >> that's a nice way of saying it's full of cruft.
> > 
> > So should we assume what you said earlier about Unix,
> > was a nice way of saying it's full of cruft?
> 
> well it is, but I think it's aged and evolved somewhat
> better than C, except for the fact that you can STILL only
> really call system facilities except by parsing and calling
> literal C-language files. 
> 
> Those things about Unix which were intentionally designed
> in as a major important concept (inodes!) are still great.

I liked both Unix and C, but I see it very differently.

Unix, once the forefront of operating system thought,
is now obsolete.  It has not evolved at all.
It is merely being kept alive as a zombie
by Linux and GNU.

C is the one that's evolved into C++, C#, Java.