if kernel rewritten from scratch

[captobvious]

Scheme/LISP as a candidate would be interesting academic project; just a guess, but let's say 1/3 lines of code but 100-200% performance penalty.

Actually, can anyone name a computer kernel written in Scheme/LISP?

 

[noz]

Scheme/LISP as a candidate would be interesting academic project; just a guess, but let's say 1/3 lines of code but 100-200% performance penalty.

Actually, can anyone name a computer kernel written in Scheme/LISP?

Here's an entire OS written in a pure functional language, as opposed to Scheme and LISP which are mostly functional.

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

 

[captobvious]

Wow nice link, thanks. I am learning Clojure now, if LISP turns me off I will have to give Haskell a shot.

 

[ChalkBored]

Scheme/LISP as a candidate would be interesting academic project; just a guess, but let's say 1/3 lines of code but 100-200% performance penalty.

Actually, can anyone name a computer kernel written in Scheme/LISP?

Lisp as an academic project leads to crazy things.
like GNU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

 

[Crivens]

Lisp as an academic project leads to crazy things.
like GNU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

Many things, when in academic use, can lead to crazy things. The same goes for industrial use, mind you. When crunching numbers, I would pick Fortran. When crunching rules, that would be prolog. Some things are best done in lisp, some in C/C++. Of course you can shoehorn any program written in a touring complete language into another such language, but the result may not be pretty and might not perform as expected.