[self-interest] Dan Ingalls quote

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03:30, Steve Dekorte wrote:
> Sorry for a bit off topic question, but I figured someone here would
> know - what was the Dan Ingalls' quote about operating systems?
> Something like "they should do what programming languages can't, that
> is ... nothing."

>From the c2 wiki,
  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LanguagesAreOperatingSystems

An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. 
There shouldn't be one. --DanIngalls



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