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 From: ron@brl (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Unix and user friendly systems Message-ID: <11116@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:57:50 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11116 Posted: Tue May 28 22:57:50 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:09:26 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