Guillermo Martínez Jiménez wrote:
I disagree. C is better for write operating systems *by definition*: C was created to write UNIX, Pascal was created to learn good programming techniques. C is low/mid-level language, Pascal is high-level (and Object Pascal is even higher): OS are the lowest software level.
That only proves the first versions of Pascal (in the 80s) were not suitable. Not whether the current-day FPC can't do it successfully.
Also note that Linux depends so heavily on GCC that I can't see it being compiled even by another C compiler. There are so many gcc (part of those are also C99) specific constructs being used to do some things more easily, efficiently (in space and time), and to add more type checking to what C natively has.
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