andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > And people still write all OS and application software in C because...??
> > 
> because the manager is from a completely different field and tried to 
> catch up with the state of the art by reading K&R.

  Of because the vast majority of libraries out there you need to write
something like an OS are written in C.

  Also C is conveniently low-level so that you can quite accurately access
asm and hardware directly.

  Do languages like Haskell even support inline asm, linking to asm routines,
or accessing hardware directly (other than with wrappers around existing
C libraries)?

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                                                          - Warp

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