Unix, and especially the freely available Unix utilities, were written in C. So Linus started coding a kernel to run the free Unix utilities.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:05:20 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>Linux was initially written in C for whatever reason (most likely ease of >>coding and availability of a compiler), initially. > > And the fact that it was (initially) written by one fella holed up in his > bedroom. We are all predisposed to particular favourites. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
