On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:06:51PM -0800, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. spake thusly: > Cool. A Lisp Machine. It's about time those made a comeback.
Actually, it's not a lisp machine. Apparently BitC isn't even a functional programming language. I thought it was too at first but was corrected on the mailing list. > Actually, snide comments aside, I think this is a step in the right > direction. There is very little reason why an OS should not be written > in something higher level than C. Sheesh. Even C++ would be an > improvement if only for the fact that dynamic strings are part of the > STL. Indeed. I think some day we will have secure machines and the virus problems etc will be a thing of the past but it is going to take a long time due to all of the vested interests in keeping things the same. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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