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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> It won't help. BeOS has been said to be a good OS. It is written
> in C++. It hasn't been a huge commercial success. Does the fact that it
> hasn't supplanted either Windows or Linux say anything about
> whether C++ is a suitable language for OS construction then?

No.

> When Plan 9 was planned, the plan included Modula 2 as the
> programming language to be used for the kernel. One of the
> developers didn't say No but that he was so familiar with C
> that he wished the kernel to be written in C. At least this
> is part of the story, afaik. Does this say something about
> whether Modula-2 is a suitable language for OS construction?

Yes.