David and Zman, Both good points, C is certainly faster than Assembler or maybe PL/S
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:17 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/01/2019 4:08 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > despite being used frequently for the purpose, it's really not > particularly suited for writing operating systems > > LOL! That's absurd! C has been ported to just about every architecture > worth mentioning and is well suited to low-level programming. It's also > incredibly > efficient and has a mature and well established tool chain for > debugging, profiling, code correctness etc. What do you consider a good > language for > writing operating systems? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
