Is this a true statement: Part II

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Sun Jul 1 21:07:43 EDT 2001


On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 11:17:31 GMT, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:

>>You could write an operating system that could only be directly
>>programmed in Python.
>
>I'm not sure how.  Nobody has yet come up with an operating system that
>could only be directly programmed in C, or Lisp, or Algol, or Java,
>despite implementing operating systems in all four.

Weren't Symbolics machines circa 1980 directly programmable
in Lisp?

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