Reimplenting Linux Kernel in Python

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-10-14, Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 01:44 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2004-10-14, Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >>> Besides that, Linux is Posix compliant and emulates Unix
>> >>> system calls to a large extend, and that also makes C a
>> >>> natural choice.
>> >> 
>> >> Not sure I follow on that point.  Any low level language that
>> >> can deal with a C "struct" and byte-addressible memory would be
>> >> fine.
>> >
>> > Well, Unix itself was written in C,
>> 
>> Originally it wasn't, but recent versions are.
>
> 'Recent' meaning since 1974?  ;)

Yup.  I admit that was sub-optimal phrasing.  I should have
said something more like "The first version wasn't but the rest
were."

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