[Novalug] Best programming language for "munging?" Not Perl? Ruby? Python?

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Oct 29 01:10:07 EDT 2009


Bruce O. Benson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Charles M Howe <cmhowe@patriot.net 
> <mailto:cmhowe@patriot.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I recall that there is a language, or maybe I should say "language",
>     name forgotten, which was assembly language, essentially. I didn't
>     really look at it, but I supposed it had the control features of a
>     language like C or Pascual
> 
>     I also remember that recently I read about a guy, or maybe it was a two
>     man team, who were writing an OS in assembly language. They were pretty
>     far along and they could fit it on a floppy.
> 
> Reminds me of an old OS joke: 
> 
> Q:  What does it take to write a real-time operating system?
> 
> A:  Stick two programmers in a basement with a keg of beer during a long 
> Canadian winter.

I always wondered why the "exit" function was named "take_off".

JIM

P.S. Hmmm, Seattle is awful close to Canada!



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