Darren New wrote:

> Oh, and btw, download that there Singularity OS. Note the almost 
> complete lack of anything remotely approaching C in the source. The use 
> of C in Singularity is approximately like the use of assembler in 
> C-based operating systems - the stuff that's impossible to do in the 
> higher-level languages, like turning interrupts into appropriate stack 
> frames and saving off registers during context switches.

Or, alternatively, House, which is a mixture of Haskell and assembly. 
(It contains 0% C.)

Of course, there's no software to run on it (unless it's written in 
Haskell - oh wait, I already said "no software", I'm repeating myself), 
and it's a highly experimental research prototype, not a production OS. 
And honestly, I doubt it'll ever be a production OS either...

Lots of very cool stuff like using the type system to ensure that 
hardware registers are accessed in the correct way, etc., but who's 
gonna use it?

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