[lug] Development & reporting tool choices

Walter Pienciak wpiencia at thunderdome.ieee.org
Tue Feb 10 12:02:02 MST 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:55:21AM -0700, Lori Reed wrote:
> Walter Pienciak wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:14:49AM -0700, 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
> >
> >You are quite the patient fisherman, Rob.  Twitch the hook a
> >bit and sit back.  ;^)
> 
> Perhaps the word "kernel" does not mean what you and Rob think it means.

Huh.

Lori, I think you have mistakenly read an e-mail.  I made no
comment concerning kernels here.

Walter



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