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What would you prefer?

• verisimilitudes 4y ago
  Lisp and Smalltalk existed before the C language, and don't have its damning flaws. Ada's also much nicer. As for the operating system, there are currently no good such systems that aren't very old. I use Emacs to largely avoid the UNIX sh. Ideally, a university would have its own operating system, but I suppose that would be too hard, in comparison to accreting another layer of shit over UNIX. Something such as Alan Kay's VPRI would be best: http://vpri.org http://vpri.org I didn't go to a university to learn anything about computers, fortunately.
  • anthk 4y ago
    Today one of the best "Not really Unix, but close" it's called Guix(SD) and it's bound to Scheme. And without C, forget about having a kernel and a Scheme compiler. The best env to complete SICP it's, paradoxically, a Unix like system written in C with an Scheme DSL to set up the system declarativelly.
  • 0x445442 4y ago
    > Ideally, a university would have its own operating system, but I suppose that would be too hard Actually that’s exactly what Nicklaus Wirt did with Oberon.