-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul G. Allen wrote: > Christopher Smith wrote: >> I guess that depends on how you define "large" and "operating system" >> (one might claim Linux is written in C, but KDE sure accounts for a lot >> of the code ;-), but certainly there are a number of operating systems >> primarily written in C++, and they have been high quality >> implementations with comparable capabilities to their C breathren. > > Linux is written in C, and there's been several discussions over the > years as to why (especially when C++ groupies have wanted to write > [it|parts of it] in C++). KDE is not Linux, it's a suite of applications > that run under X on Linux.
Again, that depends on how you define what an operating system is. Certainly the Linux kernel is written predominantly in C. Given that definition, there are certainly kernels of similar size that have been written in C++. BeOS comes immediately to mind. - --Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOLjeOagjPOywMBARAnhmAJ4vkR4lCTFP2x7aPIkdx7m9z9BI9wCfad7M BgGeSkvXSNMik0RXIKa9RRM= =TvWL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
