jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan)  wrote on 06.12.01 in <3C0FEE80.2050603@reutershealth.com>:

> Horst von Brand wrote:
>
>  > I just shudder when thinking that I'll have to learn yet another weird
>  > language to be able to hack on Linux... C, gcc-isms with asm() and all, a
>  > bit of CML1, now CML2, are OK; and now Python...
>
> You only need to learn Python if you are going to change the
> CML2 compiler or interpreter, not if you are just changing
> CML2.  You might as well complain that you must learn
> Python to hack GNU Mailman.

Or learning gcc RTL and trees to be able to hack the kernel. Just in case  
a gcc bug makes it miscompile the kernel.

Mind you: I think Python syntax stinks. But I don't expect to need to  
understand it for this.

MfG Kai
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