Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758393AbYCaOyv (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:54:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750872AbYCaOyn (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:54:43 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.168]:51387 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbYCaOym (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:54:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ggWSQJiaprSprF/sCHtvj9zHNj2b4qsYh0+KcwErLIOi24sMzQF5LKLIcARt8KjZ+RmQBOqCJNxF/riqw6WxWGtmQxTvmja2OZgPYjn4T9gMcQfXFnvGL9V5K4wMA6Lu5ViY0/q2twqUAzuKt9fBZVlVn6VEcnzdeYDIjfGtr7k= Message-ID: <804dabb00803310754q40eaca5ai8b9faacecef0edef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:41 +0800 From: "Peter Teoh" To: "Jacek Luczak" Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" , LKML , kernelnewbies In-Reply-To: <47F0D201.6030102@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com> <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins> <47F0D201.6030102@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 866 Lines: 22 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Jacek Luczak wrote: > Peter Zijlstra pisze: > > > Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs. > The future is always uncertain for us. Embedded development usually emphasizes on performance, unlike those of the desktop. So which language will be king tomorrow in embedded, it boils down to performance + optimization + ease of development. Just imagine: from 10 lines of C reduced to 2 lines of XXX-based language software - I think the 10 lines will scare off the embedded developers of tomorrow. I may be wrong :-). - Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/