Martint Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 just curious what language are operating system's coded in?Is it like machine language?and is it just one language? or like more than one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hai-Etlik Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Most often C, which is then compiled to machine language.Of course the exact boundaries between "Operating System" and everything else are kind of blurry so it's hard to really make any general statements. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 the actual heart of the operating system, the kernel, is the only thing that really is specially coded.Generally the Kernel is done in C+ or even C# now, the rest of the operating system is done based on the OS creator, Windows and Mac use C+ and/or VBscript, while Linux mainly uses Bash, Python, Boa etc.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Generally the Kernel is done in C+ or even C# nowThere are relatively few C++ kernels and no C# kernels.the rest of the operating system is done based on the OS creator, Windows and Mac use C+ and/or VBscript, while Linux mainly uses Bash, Python, Boa etc....Windows is mostly C and C++, OS X is mostly C and Objective C, Unices are mostly C. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 I stand corrected, thanks jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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