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Not all languages are suitable for low-level system programming, or have suitable low-level development tools available for them. Even those which are suitable often require specific runtime support, where C does not. Also, the vast majority of OS related resources (like tutorials, and how-to examples, including this Wiki except where noted otherwise) assume C as the primary development language, so an OS developer should at least be able to read C code. |
Not all languages are suitable for low-level system programming, or have suitable low-level development tools available for them. Even those which are suitable often require specific runtime support, where C does not. Also, the vast majority of OS related resources (like tutorials, and how-to examples, including this Wiki except where noted otherwise) assume C as the primary development language, so an OS developer should at least be able to read C code. |
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Using a language other than C entails a good deal of extra effort. But there are [[Alta Lang |some developers]] who are willing to put in that effort in order to suit the development of their OSes to their ways of thinking (for example: programming paradigms). |
Using a language other than C entails a good deal of extra effort. But there are [[Alta Lang |some developers]] who are willing to put in that effort in order to suit the development of their OSes to their ways of thinking (for example: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm programming paradigms]). |
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On the other hand, trying to write an OS in interpreted languages like Perl or Java is unlikely to succeed. There are research projects about it, of course, but nothing that has completely changed the way we write kernels so far. And trying to write it in HTML, PHP or Javascript would just be proof that you have much to learn... |
On the other hand, trying to write an OS in interpreted languages like Perl or Java is unlikely to succeed. There are research projects about it, of course, but nothing that has completely changed the way we write kernels so far. And trying to write it in HTML, PHP or Javascript would just be proof that you have much to learn... |
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