From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,452cc77087d03fe2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 101edf,452cc77087d03fe2 X-Google-Attributes: gid101edf,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,b566ea94bd792e78,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: f9382,452cc77087d03fe2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9382,public X-Google-Thread: 10efc3,452cc77087d03fe2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10efc3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b566ea94bd792e78,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11174e,452cc77087d03fe2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11174e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-13 20:52:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp74894.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: alt.os,alt.os.development,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.minix,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IKBOCS - Object Oriented Operating System Date: 14 Apr 2004 03:52:49 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: <95db0572.0404120340.4ae52860@posting.google.com> <407C59E9.64857AF@daimi.au.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp74894.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.210.163) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1081914769 2144999 I 64.229.210.163 ([125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nnvirtual:Linux" 1324) X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.os:673 alt.os.development:4935 comp.os.linux:40017 comp.os.linux.development.system:3775 comp.os.minix:7309 comp.lang.scheme:5381 comp.lang.ada:7068 Date: 2004-04-14T03:52:49+00:00 List-Id: Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when Kasper Dupont would write: > David Schwartz wrote: >> >> "OsamaBinAry/TEG" wrote in message >> news:c5ebun$n70l$1@ID-142986.news.uni-berlin.de... >> >> >I bet it would be slow if you use 100% object oriented code. >> >> Yeah, it's gotta be 100% assembly, right? > > Now we just need one person to suggest C++ and > another person to suggest some obscure language, > and we will have been through all the regular > trool posts. Well, there's a kernel module that allows you to write Linux device drivers in Scheme, so that's certainly an option. Writing a kernel in Ada would be a novel idea, and could use "OO" idioms in recent versions of Ada. GNU Ada is probably a better choice now than it ever was. Neither of those are "obscure" languages, though... -- "cbbrowne","@","ntlug.org" http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/languages.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #63. "Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through accessible tunnels at predictable intervals."