But first we would need a really good PL/I compiler, which in itself, is
not a bad thing. I would really like to have a reasonable alternative to
C for implementing things in Linux, for all of the reasons plus some,
that DB mentions below.
David Boyes wrote:
Yeah, I was going to mention that. The fact that it's written in PL/I
is
certainly an odd choice, but I guess no stranger than writing an OS in
C.
As a retired Multician, there's nothing at all odd about Multics being
in PL/1. PL/1 is perfectly natural, and has a lot of really nice things
in it for writing really, REALLY safe, stable code. You can get away
with all kinds of crap in C that PL/1 won't tolerate -- and that way
leads to Windows. 8-)
Talking about unnatural, though, that Honeywell 601 hardware... that's
another story. 8-)
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