From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 10:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE4937B7EE for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10349; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA24533; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24529; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: t g Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why c? In-Reply-To: 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 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