If you could write an OS from scratch...

Okay, so most every OS out there is C-based.  If you could magically write a complete hardware-controlling OS all the way up to the UI and applications using a different language, which would you choose?

Though I like Lisp, I think I'd have to choose Erlang, maybe NewSqueak for embedded/smaller systems.

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assembly is high level. if you don't believe me, try coding in machine code. i've done it, and it makes you really appreciate having an assembler.