Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Jul 2009 22:53 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Captain, we've encountered another one. FreeNOS is a microkernel-based operating system written for learning purposes. "The system is very experimental, yet it currently supports virtual memory, simple task scheduling, and interprocess communication (IPC). It currently contains support for a few devices, including VGA, keyboard, i8250 serial, and PCI host controllers. FreeNOS has an experimental implementation of several filesystems, such as the virtual file system, procfs, tmpfs, and ext2fs. Current
application libraries include libposix, libc, libteken (terminal emulation), and libexec (executable formats). All source code has been documented with Doxygen tags."
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2009-05-20
I tend to be out of step in that I still prefer the idea of a language that has a niche and does that niche incredibly well instead of having a general purpose language that is either an attempt to be everything to everyone that collapses under its own weight or worse no one is happy because it tries to do everything but ends up doing it all half assed.
Well said.
And then breaking this fine sentence into two parts that highlight my personal opinion:
I tend to be out of step in that I still prefer the idea of a language that has a niche and does that niche incredibly well
C.
instead of having a general purpose language that is either an attempt to be everything to everyone that collapses under its own weight or worse no one is happy because it tries to do everything but ends up doing it all half assed.
C++.