From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 12: 8:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gold.killercomputing.com (ATHM-216-216-77-156.home.net [216.216.77.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938D37B923 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pulcher@killercomputing.com) Received: from popgun ([199.233.181.2]) by gold.killercomputing.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA21511; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:08:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from pulcher@killercomputing.com) Message-ID: <01b201bfb921$f7695d00$02b5e9c7@killercomputing.com> From: "Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing" To: "Brennan W Stehling" Cc: "shannon stees" , References: Subject: Re: researching FreeBSD Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:16:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brennan, I think you missed the point. But that ok. :) Harold ----- Original Message ----- From: Brennan W Stehling To: Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing Cc: shannon stees ; Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re: researching FreeBSD > 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