From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 10:42:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f27.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CCC37B610 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixboy007@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:42:48 -0700 Received: from 166.62.175.19 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [166.62.175.19] From: "t g" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: why c? Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:42:48 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Aug 2000 17:42:48.0510 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A30EDE0:01C006E0] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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