Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 07:35:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: randir <goehrigd AT canisius DOT edu>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: source code
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Hahaha! Good one!!  ROTFLMAO!  Linux is 99% plain C code and is a
> heck of a lot more efficient and powerful than ANY DOS!  HAHHAHA.


	1.) Just because it has more functionality doesn't mean
	it is more efficient.  Unixes which are actually written
	in ASM are VERY impressive and put your precious C code
	kernels to shame.

	2.) There is a lot of Linux kernel stuff which is written in
	assembly far more than 1%.

	3.) Assembly is what all OS's should be written in, because there
	is no way to write them faster.   A wiley asm programmer can
	generally hack code which uses half as many clock cycles as a
	C programmer.

	For that matter FORTH is superior to C when it comes to fast
	extensible code.  And is used for hardware control.  

In the end, C is merely a nice choice for a mid level programming
language that was designed with enough functionality to build an OS.