On 12/13/05, William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:43:27PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Some of the kernel core (i.e., the low-level assembly, the garbage
> > collector, the debugger) is written in unchecked languages,
> > but most of it (including, for example, the scheduler and all the
> > device drivers) is written in checked languages.  Safe device drivers
> > alone would fix a huge fraction of the Windows crashes.
>
> To hear (some of) the UW guys tell it, it is ``just SPIN'' :-)
>

yeah but then you'd have to write in Modula3