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From: "Ioannis Vranos" <ivr@guesswh.at.emails.ru>
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Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:25:53 +0300
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"KingIshu" <ikbocs@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I am developing an object oriented OS code-named "ikbocs".
> 1) What are the pros and cons of the following languages interms of
> Effectiveness on System Programming, Object Orientedness etc ?
> (Simula, Smalltalk, Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, C++)
> I suppose Java is not suitable for Sys. Programming.
>
> 2) Which OOP language would be better for OS development?


I 'll talk about C++ which is the language i know about. Both runtime and
space efficiency was one of its design criteria. Abstraction facilities do
not impose additional run-time or space cost than equivalent C-style code.
"It leaves no room for a lower level programming language (except
assembly)".

It supports the OO paradigm, generic programming paradigm (templates),
modular programming paradigm (namespaces) and procedural paradigm. Each
paradigm is supported *well* and with space/run-time efficiency.

Actually those are the reasons that i decided to learn C++ after i learned
C. I think C++ is the best language out there and this not because of
language fanatism.



References:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/esc99.html
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/






Ioannis Vranos