[Novalug] Best programming language for "munging?" Not Perl? Ruby? Python?

[Bruce O. Benson]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Charles M Howe <cmhowe at patriot.net> wrote:

> I recall that there is a language, or maybe I should say "language",
> name forgotten, which was assembly language, essentially. I didn't
> really look at it, but I supposed it had the control features of a
> language like C or Pascual
>
> I also remember that recently I read about a guy, or maybe it was a two
> man team, who were writing an OS in assembly language. They were pretty
> far along and they could fit it on a floppy.
>
> Reminds me of an old OS joke:

Q:  What does it take to write a real-time operating system?

A:  Stick two programmers in a basement with a keg of beer during a long
Canadian winter.
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