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: 109fba,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Thread: fac41,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,gid103376,gidfac41,gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-25 20:43:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development References: <95db0572.0404142153.431fd058@posting.google.com> From: Berend de Boer Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pd1FeFUGnPsxRTFD0VYScmMYSFw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:43:30 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.89.117.159 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1082951012 219.89.117.159 (Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:43:32 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:43:32 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:31647 comp.lang.ada:7494 comp.lang.eiffel:757 comp.object:11190 Date: 2004-04-26T15:43:30+12:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Heilig writes: Brian> is probably the show stopper. I'm pretty sure it is Brian> impossible to write an entire OS completely in Brian> Eiffel. You can't do it in C either. You always need a bit of assember to access the hardware. Brian> one priority Eiffel may not be for you. SmartEiffel and Brian> ISE Eiffel generate very efficient code, but I don't think Brian> it meets the demands of a CPU scheduler, for example. That's more related to multi-threading. Which Eiffel can do, and there is even a SCOOP version of SmartEiffel. -- Regards, Berend. ** you're welcome to the #eiffel irc channel on irc.freenode.net