On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Matt Stegman wrote:
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> However, it's not the only language used. Many programs are written in
> C++ (a successor to C, I think mostly to add graphics capabilities), and
just for the record, the creation of c++ had nothing to do with adding
graphics capabilities and almost everything to do with adding OOP (object
oriented programming) support.
It's original usage was simulations (a lot of it's oop syntax comes from
simula or some such language) but was soon adopted for many other tasks.
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> -Matt Stegman
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> On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Joe Brault wrote:
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> > Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what
> > language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long
> > and hard!
> >
> > Joe :)
> >
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>
David van Balen
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