Can COBOL be used as a language for Operating System?
- Akshya Chopra
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Can COBOL be used as a language for Operating System?
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Subject line says it all -- Can we use the COBOL language to develop an Operating System?
Subject line says it all -- Can we use the COBOL language to develop an Operating System?
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Re: Can COBOL be used as a language for Operating System?
The simple answer is No. COBOL is a language developed for the Business Programs' Development and not for developing Operating Systems.
If you are interested in developing Operating Systems - C, C++ can be your choices among many others.
If you are interested in developing Operating Systems - C, C++ can be your choices among many others.
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Anuj
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Re: Can COBOL be used as a language for Operating System?
You're welcome.
If you're interested to develop an OS of your own - my opinion is to start with FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).
It is portable and you can throw in assembler where you need to, it calls subroutines/functions in a manner that is native to Intel Architecture (something C/C++ does not do) (this is something to do with how it handles the stack - ) much more efficient than C/C++ on Intel unless you reverse the stack growth flag in the Intel Chip itself in your OS to be different from everything else - which would probably not be a good idea.
If you're interested to develop an OS of your own - my opinion is to start with FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).
It is portable and you can throw in assembler where you need to, it calls subroutines/functions in a manner that is native to Intel Architecture (something C/C++ does not do) (this is something to do with how it handles the stack - ) much more efficient than C/C++ on Intel unless you reverse the stack growth flag in the Intel Chip itself in your OS to be different from everything else - which would probably not be a good idea.
Thanks,
Anuj
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Anuj
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Re: Can COBOL be used as a language for Operating System?
Glad, you find it helpful. Good Luck.
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Anuj
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