[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2021 3:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/15/21 2:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Supposedly m2 is going to be in standard GCC dist going forward,
>> so maybe Modula-2 instead of Ada??
> 
> But, sadly, Modula was intended for applications and not systems
> programming.  I seriously doubt you could write a functional OS
> beyond the most simplistic in Modula.

Modula-2 was created with the intention to write
OS code (Lilith) and does have a bunch of machine
close constructs and in most flavors integration
with C and assembler.

Arne