Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: t g <unixboy007@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why c? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008151346270.2637-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <F27g6A7oPiFEW6sStwN00000d3d@hotmail.com>
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I know that one reason that UNIX is still mostly C is because C binaries are a lot smaller and faster. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, t g wrote: > i've been trying to learn unix off and on for a while now, and i finally > trashed windoze ;-) now i'm running freebsd 4.0-release (only... no more > windows at all!). > > anyway, when i was in college (not to long ago) i took a number of > programming classes and all but one of them used c++. so, my question is, > why is everything written in c? is it simply because unix was written > before c++, or is c better for an os? > > i'm also interested in a good book on programming operating system if anyone > has a recommendation (doesn't have to be geared toward unix). > > thanks. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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