From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!mhuxv!mhuxj!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: How would the French implement Unix? Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2514 Posted: Wed Aug 11 13:41:48 1982 Received: Sat Aug 14 03:50:07 1982 I think the French are using ISO Pascal, which has "conformant arrays". I'm not sure, but I believe you can make variable length character strings using conformant arrays, so the obvious problem is taken care of. However, they insist on using ISO Pascal, NOT a superset, since they are using existing compilers. This means they can't use ANY extensions. I would think they would at least want external compilation, since recompiling the whole kernel to make a 1 line change doesn't sound like much fun. And there appears to be no way to implement qsort(3). malloc should be interesting, too, but I can see writing that in assembly language (or C) and a user program using "new". It should be interesting to see what /usr/include becomes in Sol. Mark