On 14-Nov-2000 Mark Phillips wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> myself and several developers are watching the lists. I have been >> lurking since the list was created. Once they have a robust setup, >> i suspect it will appear in debian quickly. I still have >> apprehension over trusting my filesystem to perl. > > Why is perl a danger? > > I thought one advantage of InterMezzo was that it makes use of normal > filesystems. Ie, you have an ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS underneath and > the perl stuff is really for higher level transactions. Surely perl > is reliable and appropriate for this higher level stuff??? Maybe > not?? >
sorry, some of us don't like trusting system level things to high level languages like perl. Mostly a bias. Partly a runtime efficiency thing.
