Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:02:34 +1000 (EST) | From | Matty <> | Subject | Re: Sun, Java, Linux |
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Matt Hartley wrote:
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> Not much else I can think of, we should try to get a free license to include > the interperter in the kernel (of course only if Linus likes this and it > would increase the size of things and it would have to be optional....) or > maybe a module (I LOVE MODULES!) instead of the workaround we have now. > That would make it easier for interpertation for each machine through the > OS possibly. I dunno.
Workaround???
Dude, do you see a C compiler in the kernel? How about C++ ? Fortran? Ada? Pascal? BASIC? Any programming language at all?
Compilation or interpretation of a programming language is a user-space thing - it does NOT belong in the kernel.
The kernel is for funky things like hardware drivers, handling the multitasking, etc.
-- Matt
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PS: not bad for an amateur ;)
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