lyricalnanoha wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, mdj wrote:Of course, the idea of using true microkernels, let alone implementing much of the OS in a higher level language still hasn't taken off, and I suspect just the old adage of "if it aint broke don't fix it" will keep mainstream OS's from being scratch rewritten for a very long time.Isn't C a higher level language? A ton of OSes are predominantly written in C.-uso.
It used to be. Apparently, the young 'uns can't seem to keep track of their memory and set their pointers to absurd values. They need something called polymorphism and just-in-time compilation. Back in my day, a structure was all we needed and just-in-time compilation meant the build completed before lunch was over. Kids.
Dave...