Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:45:00 -0800 | From | Ben Ford <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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Chris Lattner wrote:
> This email is here to announce the availability of a port of ORBit (the > GNOME ORB) to the Linux kernel. This ORB, named kORBit, is available from > our sourceforge web site (http://korbit.sourceforge.net/). A kernel ORB > allows you to write kernel extensions in CORBA and have the kernel call > into them, or to call into the kernel through CORBA. This opens the door > to a wide range of experiments/hacks: > > * We can now write device drivers in perl, and let them run on the iMAC > across the hall from you. :)
Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl???
-b
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