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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (8288)	3/12/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: SSS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Rod's statement was that languages other than C have access to the OS through a C interface. This is technically correct. Your fortran/cobol executables (or the perl interpreter) are all linked with libraries of C code to access the OS. In some cases this is transparent. Other times, one may need to "call out" to the C API's directly. SSS

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (8288)	3/12/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't know where you get your information from, but I think you are not correct. C is not the only language to run on UNIX boxes. Wiseowl, I agree with both statements but they are not related. The shell scripts and other higher level "languages" access services in the operating system through a C language interface. It's sort of a tier structure with C right near the bottom. Think of C as the UNIX Programing Language (UPL) and you will have the connection to the Java Programing Language (JPL, hmmm....) and Java the Operating System and/or environment. See, Windows was an "environment" long before it ever made it to Operating System status and high level languages like COBOL and FORTRAN either used Window's C language interface or their assembly language interface.