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Or maybe C is uniquely suited to the task of writing a kernel, after all that's what it was designed for.
by muricula 9y ago
Or maybe C is uniquely suited to the task of writing a kernel, after all that's what it was designed for.
- Inityx 9y agohttps://www.redox-os.org/ https://www.redox-os.org/
- pjmlp 9y agoNot really, kernels were being written in HLL 10 years before C existed, and at strange places like IBM research. The only good thing about it is that the language is easier to write a compiler for, as it is basically a portable macro assembler, specially the K&R C variant.
- blattimwind 9y agoOperating systems were written in high(er) level languages a number of years before C, or UNIX, were invented.