[lug] Development & reporting tool choices

Landon Cox landon at 360vl.com
Tue Feb 10 11:23:50 MST 2009


HI Rob,

Please tell us more about the device driver written in perl...a kernel  
or user space dd in perl?  What did it do?

On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Rob Nagler wrote:

> Lori Reed writes:
>> Are you asking why the Linux kernel is written in C?
>
> Having written device drivers in Perl, C, Java, Modula-2, etc.,
> I *know* why they're written in C, and why it's silly to do so. :)
>
> Rob
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