[ros-kernel] I have improved ReactOS!

[Ge van Geldorp]

My port to Fortran was also working out quite well, but I've had to stop
it 'cause I'm running out of storage space for the paper tapes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Jake Black
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:48
> To: ros-kernel at reactos.com
> Subject: [ros-kernel] I have improved ReactOS!
> 
> 
> I have been following this project for quite a long time, and 
> never really 
> found anything to work on, until recently.
> 
> Having studied COBOL for the past few years, it seems like a 
> really neat 
> language - especially as you don't need to comment your code 
> everywhere!
> 
> So I have rewritten most of the kernel in COBOL, because, as 
> I have been 
> taught:
> - COBOL is so easy to understand, even newcomers to the 
> project will know 
> whats going on by looking at the sources
> - COBOL has been around for years, so must've had a lot of 
> optimizations and 
> improvements made
> - COBOL deals with large amounts of data so efficiently that 
> it doesn't need 
> to use arrays, it can just swap data to and from the disk in realtime
> - COBOL is fast and easy to use - so the development time 
> should be shorter
> 
> It's taken me quite a long time to do this, but it should be 
> worth it :)
> 
> Anyway, I have to get going now - if anyone wants to see what 
> I've done, 
> I'll give you the link later.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> J
> 
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