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