On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:34:48 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Hobbs) wrote:
>David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello. I recently came across a free operating system called Unununium (or >> something like that) and it was developed in Python and Assembly. >> >> Now, I have been looking for a way to make an operating system for a long >> long time and the only possibilities I could find were C++ and assembly. > >The problem when using Python instead of C for OS development is that >C was *specifically designed* to create an OS, while Python was designed >for completely different purposes. If you want to write an OS, it would >be wise to use a language that is suited for that purpose. If you >dislike C so much and prefer Python so much more, your first step should >be to design a Python dialect that is more appropriate for writing OS's. > >(I know that you mentioned C++, not C, but I decided to setup C as a >straw-man to make my argument.) I'd say look at Ada for HLL inspiration, if you want to deal with OS level stuff in Python. Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
