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Subject: Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi
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Paul Rubin wrote:
> rickman wrote:
> > I'm still not following.  How does the language the OS was written
> > in have any impact on the interfaces the OS provides?
> The OS is written in C because the developers were C programmers and
> they were the ones who got to choose the language.  They also got to
> design the interfaces, so they designed them for the convenience of
> other C programmers.

I don't see that e.g. the Linux/x86 system call interface is that much
more convenient for C than Forth.