Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!FINJYU.BITNET!J_ELORAN From: J_ELORAN@FINJYU.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: oprating systems written in fortran Message-ID: <8712250711.AA20205@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 24 Dec 87 23:38:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 22 All the people who have said something good about fortran and operating systems have been refering to 'old' operating systems. Now why are the 'new' operating systems written in entirely different languages? VMS in bliss and Unix in C. People have realized that some languages are more suitable for numerical calulcations and some are for both (talking about C...) So why would we use 'formula translator for an operating system?' Because some people have learned it and are NOT bothering to learn new programming languages. I was part of this 'old programming languages' category, until I got thrilled enough (inspired by other C programmers) to learn C. After I learned C, I began to understand what the REAL difference between the 'old' and the 'new' programming languages were. And it also affected to my view of the operating systems (along the study of them). Long live C! Jussi Eloranta J_ELORANTA@FINJYU.BITNET, ELORANTA@FINJYU.BITNET, JELORANTA@FINFUN.BITNET University of Jyvaskyla Finland.