From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 11:53:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7AD37BB81 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA81471; Mon, 8 May 2000 13:53:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:53:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing Cc: shannon stees , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: researching FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <019401bfb91e$9119ae40$02b5e9c7@killercomputing.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do not see anyone writing a drive in COBOL, although I was tempted to create a CGI script with it once, but that thought passed quickly. I would say ASM is useful in much the same way compiled C code is used in several perl modules. If you want to get very efficient, you use the language which can do it more efficiently. Perl does not run as quickly as C and C does not run as fast as ASM. I do not know where COBOL would fit in. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Mon, 8 May 2000, Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing wrote: > What I am wondering is: What does it matter? > > I mean I understand the need to know if you are developing stuff, but did > you ask the same questions of Window's OS's, Solaris, etc... > > If you are just using the system, why would you care. > > A programming language is in no way a guage of how the OS will perform. If > the OS does what you need it todo, then it could have been programmed in > ALGOL, PL1, COBOL, ASM, Pascal, FORTRAN, Lisp, and (I forget the rest of the > languages I have run into in the past. Rest assured it is a long list). > > Just wondering what would make a person pose such a question, > Harold > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: shannon stees > To: > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:45 AM > Subject: researching FreeBSD > > > > Forgive me for being uninformed, but I'm researching FreeBSD and I have a > > question that I have not found a specific answer for through searching the > > net. If you could be of assistance, I would greatly appreciate it. > > > > What is the language in which FreeBSD is written? > > > > my email is: shadyshay@hotmail.com > > > > Thank you > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message