From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 22:23:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E79737B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60A8943F85 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045117423.eb771f@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26609 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2003 06:23:43 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 06:23:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15940.41583.186990.685971@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:23:43 -0600 To: northern snowfall Cc: questions@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages In-Reply-To: <3E44A036.1010609@ameritech.net> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> <3E44A036.1010609@ameritech.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3E44A036.1010609@ameritech.net>, northern snowfall typed: > I desire to learn Operating System design. Architecture specific > code. Portability, etc. Therefore, C asm and Java are hardly > redundant. I can see how C and asm fit into that picture. One's the portable assembler you right most of your code in, and the other is the non-portable assembler that you right the other bits in. How does Java fit? > If someone posts a languages question to a mailing list about an > Operating System FreeBSD is more than just an Operating System - it's a complete platform. For hacking on FreeBSD sources, the answers are C, the ASM for your machine, and C. > I still have a right to state thoughts. Don't you think? =) Of course you do, and I didn't mean to attack either you or your thoughts. I was expressing my opinion of those three choices. I'm beginning to think the original posters goal was to start a long, off-topic discussion. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message