> Not much of a stretch with C, really - there's a reason its used to write operating systems C is a terrible language for Operating Systems. No modules, weak

> Not much of a stretch with C, really - there's a reason its used to write operating systems C is a terrible language for Operating Systems. No modules, weak-typing, and full of gotchas and pitfalls — plus, it's answers like this that ignore the history of OSes: the Burroughs was written in Algol, Multics was written in PL/I, and VMS in BLISS (plus other languages, thanks to the design/architecture of the CLE).