Re: The kernal itself is low level assembly language

G. Allen Morris III (gam3@harpo.ixlabs.com)
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:27:07 -0800


# find . -name \*.S | wc
227 227 6573

# find . -name \*.S -exec cat {} \; | wc
72409 275474 1850470

227 files with 72 thousands lines of code is fair amount of
low level assembly language.

Now it we only had a high level assembly language ;)

Allen

>>>Mark Lord said:
> >From this evening's chat session at msnbc:
> ...
> >[Chris_MSNBC says]:
> > <Eric Murray>: what programming laungauge is used in linux, is it all C
> > code? What do you think of Java, and will any launguage replace C as
> > the dominant language
> >
> >[Linus_Torvalds- says:]
> > The kernal itself is low level assembly language....it's just how things
> > are done.
>
> huh?
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