Re: [9fans] C++

2012-11-24 Thread David Leimbach 
On Nov 23, 2012 6:03 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:

  Are operating systems written in C for it's technical merits or because
  it is industry standard practice?

 Neither: pragmatism.  The language and Unix grew up together, teaching
 each other many tricks.

 ++L


And they are not all written in C.

Re: [9fans] c++

2012-11-24 Thread David Leimbach 
On Nov 22, 2012 8:31 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:

  it's an Xbox game. and yes, you
  need it ;)

 Xbox-360?  Surely it runs IBM code?


Yes.  IBM power pc
 :-)

 ++L