[ros-general] great project / suggestions

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At 17.51 21/02/2004, you wrote:
>[XML] its not compiled, its interpreted.

don't say that! it may actually happen! :-)

>There really is no alternative than C when you are writing a new kernel

you can write one in almost 100% Java. See 
<http://jnode.sourceforge.net/portal/>. The worst problem is, as always, 
finding drivers for it. Don't ask me how do they implement the early 
bootstrap or resident routines or interrupt handling (for the latter I 
hypothize something like Windows ISRs + DPCs), but I think they're just 
technicalities at JIT or runtime library level

>C, in its pure form is starting to get a bit dated, but it reduces 
>overhead and runs faster than C++.

please don't make statements you can't possibly prove (essentially because 
they are false)