"Except for Ada, no other modern language is suitable for writing things like kernels, drivers"
I think the existence of Lisp machine OSes is a prominent counterexample to this claim. I understand your point, and I would not try using modern Lisp compilers to write an OS, but there is nothing about Lisp that makes it a bad language for low-level code.
I think the existence of Lisp machine OSes is a prominent counterexample to this claim. I understand your point, and I would not try using modern Lisp compilers to write an OS, but there is nothing about Lisp that makes it a bad language for low-level code.