From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:03:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:03:23 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:16528 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:03:15 -0500 Date: 07 Dec 2001 20:12:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8EP8Jqsmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <3C0FEE80.2050603@reutershealth.com> Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5 X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <200112061851.fB6IpHE0016176@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> <3C0FEE80.2050603@reutershealth.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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