Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:58:41 -0000 (UTC)
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-29, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:

Were the mucky bits actually written in Lisp or was Lisp simply calling some
routines written in assembler?

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Sorry, could you demarcate where exactly the goalposts are? Which mucky
bits?

Oh I dunno, the parts that walk a kernel memory structure for example.

In kernels written in C, there are mucky bits in assembler, like
entry and exit into an trap/interrupt handler.  You usually can't save

Sure, but far less that there would be in a higher level language.