Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755934AbZALSFK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:05:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751131AbZALSEz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:04:55 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:46161 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752620AbZALSEy (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:04:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:39 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Rob Landley Cc: Paul Mundt , "Mark A. Miller" , Bernd Petrovitsch , Leon Woestenberg , "H. Peter Anvin" , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Message-ID: <20090112180439.0938ab5a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200901121156.17377.rob@landley.net> References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <31014a580901120118u55256b51g448f22e9e0ef5d1f@mail.gmail.com> <20090112094121.GD28564@linux-sh.org> <200901121156.17377.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 23 > I didn't say it was incapable of being supported. We're _capable_ of > reimplementing the entire kernel in perl Which perl. What minor release, what day of the week syntax. Ask anyone in the distribution business about the joy of perl and you can listen to the screams for hours. Perl5 has no formal grammar and you cannot tell what perl of the week does and perl of last week doesn't do. That makes it a bad candidate for our toolchain dependencies. Alan -- "I don't want world domination if it means I have to deal with more people like this" - Mike Wangsmo -- 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/