[lug] Development & reporting tool choices

Lori Reed lorireed at lightning-rose.com
Tue Feb 10 11:55:21 MST 2009


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.

L.




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