bigguy

Well, I think I'm going to make a small OS. Nothing fancy just something that will run a few commands and programs. I need to know which would be better you think. I know more about Pascal then I know about C, so right now I'm leaning towards Pascal. I would just like to know what yall would recommend for something like this. It's gonna be simple like " run, edit, copy cut, paste, start, end, etc etc." Jus let em know what yall think. I want to get started by summer. SO if yall have some ides thatd be great to.

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DaWei

I think you're probably talking 'shell', not 'OS.'

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bigguy

Yeah your right DaWei, Thank. By the way, I emailed that compnay you used to work for. Rob is still the boss but they couldnt help me out. He also told me to give you his best wishes and hoped you were doing ok.

Thank again.

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Lich

Did you just hijack your own thread?

For a shell, C is probably better to use than pascal

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Throw Pascal away and use C.

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Arevos

I don't know. For my final degree project, I chose to redesign what I saw as the old-and-clunky bash into something decidedly more modern. I used C++ with the STL and Bison; frankly, that was a big mistake. Whilst bigguy's project is likely to be more modest, it's still worth remembering that a shell doesn't need to be particularly fast.

nnxion

Go with Pascal, everybody already uses C/C++ .

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rofl. Yeah, a lot of people use Pascal...

Actually, I think Pascal is fine for a starting language.... last time I used it was early 90s.

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Mitsurugi

pascal can do that sort of thing? if so then wow. learning it in college it didnt seem capable of anything great (maybe we didnt learn much about it)

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Polyphemus_

Guess so. Pascal can be used for complete operating systems.