"Michael Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. I recently came across a free operating system called Unununium (or > > something like that) and it was developed in Python and Assembly. > > > > Now, I have been looking for a way to make an operating system for a long > > long time and the only possibilities I could find were C++ and assembly. > > The problem when using Python instead of C for OS development is that > C was *specifically designed* to create an OS, while Python was designed > for completely different purposes. If you want to write an OS, it would > be wise to use a language that is suited for that purpose. If you > dislike C so much and prefer Python so much more, your first step should > be to design a Python dialect that is more appropriate for writing OS's.
Yes, that sounds pretty realistic : ) For someone who is choosing the wrong language to write an OS, and who I would guess doesn't understand interrupt programming and the like -- their first task should be to redesign Python!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
