writting an os in klingon

Pyrofan1 · Post by **Pyrofan1** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:34 am

I just thought of this, how about writing a parser for a language in C and write your os in this language and then have the parser interpret this language.

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:03 am

and the added value might be ... ? If you want a challenge try writing an os in binary just zero's and one's also funny but imho just as pointless as writing an os in klingon.

Pyrofan1 · Post by **Pyrofan1** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:08 am

I'm still going to do it, Qapla'

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:25 am

You definitly need all the success you can get.

Hoch 'ebmey tIjon.

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:11 am

And who will make a operating system in Brainfuck?

inflater

Aali · Post by **Aali** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:06 am

you dont need to create the parser yourself, there's already a klingon programming language (google around for it), you'd just have to add some low-level stuff so you can interface with hardware and you'll be set

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:42 am

inflater wrote:And who will make a operating system in Brainfuck?

inflater

Maybe, extend it to support writing and reading to/from ports. What we need is a high-level language which can eliminate the need for assembly in an OS (besides maybe the bootloader).

redwolf · Post by **redwolf** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:06 pm

Might this make a more secure OS?

After all,who would understand the source code in Klingon?It would all fall back to machine language in the end,though.

Fun thoughts,
Redwolf

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:09 pm

redwolf wrote:Might this make a more secure OS?

Security through obscurity, yes

redwolf · Post by **redwolf** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:21 pm

Different kind of obscurity.Not like moving telnet port to another port.

Who would seriously learn Klingon,or know what it is to begin with,just to read some source code?I'm sure if it became commonplace,it would be a different story,though.

But this is obscurity.IMHO,anyway.

Regards,
Redwolf

jnc100 · Post by **jnc100** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:17 pm

redwolf wrote:Might this make a more secure OS?

After all,who would understand the source code in Klingon?

You can crack Windows without seeing (and let alone understanding) the source code...

Regards,
John.

redwolf · Post by **redwolf** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:44 pm

Got me there.

Regards,
Redwolf

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:47 am

jnc100 wrote:
redwolf wrote:Might this make a more secure OS?

After all,who would understand the source code in Klingon?
You can crack Windows without seeing (and let alone understanding) the source code...

Regards,
John.

Or go to your local uni/college and get a copy of the shared source Windows Vista kernel.

enrico_granata · Post by **enrico_granata** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:51 am

I don't think professors will share though

( which is rather unfortunate IMHO )