Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 17:17:36 EST


Horst von Brand wrote:

> I just shudder when thinking that I'll have to learn yet another weird
> language to be able to hack on Linux... C, gcc-isms with asm() and all, a
> bit of CML1, now CML2, are OK; and now Python...

You only need to learn Python if you are going to change the
CML2 compiler or interpreter, not if you are just changing
CML2. You might as well complain that you must learn
Python to hack GNU Mailman.

CML2 hacking requires knowing Python; kernel hacking does not.

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