On 11 Jul 2012, at 15:29, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> After all: an operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. 
> 
> 
> Should there be one?

No, there shouldn't be one: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/
Singularity is much more a high-level language [VM] than it is a classical OS.

Ah, but oops, it's from Microsoft...




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