Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:13:16 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver) |
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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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