Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ron@BRL.ARPA From: ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Unix and user friendly systems Message-ID: <11117@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 23:16:47 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11117 Posted: Tue May 28 23:16:47 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:09:44 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 7 And if the people who wrote UNIX had done it in Ada, it wouldn't be any better. Ada lends itself to the ideosyncratic programming conventions that are one of the problems in C as well. Get one of the hacking OS programmers writing in Ada and he can do the same as if he were, if he were doing it in assembly. -Ron