Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:13:16 -0500

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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