[TUHS] Re: Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

At Sat, 1 Mar 2025 19:00:03 -0800, Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: Subject: [TUHS] Re: Any UNIX With No C In Userland? Unfortunately modern C isn't a a great portable "assembler" any more. V is probably one of the better new low-level programming languages. Development of V has hardly stalled -- it's highly active from what I see on Github. I personally think V is very easy to learn for C programmers, with lots of similarities, and it's very easy to translate C to V too! Hare is another interesting new compiled systems-level language. Both are promising "No Undefined Behaviour" -- since of course the main Sin Of Modern C is it's all-too-abusive reliance on Undefined Behaviour. Possibly Jai will be in this realm as well. Hmm.... Nim? Maybe. Regarding the question starting this part of the thread: Any UNIX with no C In Userland? Well there was TUNIS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS) I don't have quick access to my copy of the book about it, but I seem to recall that there may have been some attempts to be ABI-compatible with 7th Edition Unix, at least on PDP-11. That Wikipedia article does say: Programs that ran under Unix V7 could be run under TUNIS with no modification. But that may have only meant API-compatible. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>