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SubjectRe: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)
According to Horst von Brand:
> Doing this _right_ would mean to redesign/rewrite the whole kernel from the
> ground up.

We're doing such a complete rewrite with Perl right now. It's a
big project, even though the fine points of Perl aren't nearly as
razor-sharp as the fine points of Linux.

That said, I think that right about Linux 3.0 or so it'd be an
interesting project to take the core of Linux and a few device
drivers, and see what the rewrite would look like. There would be no
mandatory efficiency loss, and C++'s additional expressiveness....
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
"When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."

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