On Fri Sep 30, 2005 at 10:24:56 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: >On 9/30/05, Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know, but I don't agree with him. If the language is good, there is no >> reason why it *shouldn't* be used for device driver programming. > >The languages that save developers worrying about if a number is too >big to be an integer mostly do the insulating by lifting the >programmer away from physical resources. > >So, for example, memory allocation and deallocation is magic. > >For problems that requires memory mapping, VM based languages are not >going to be a good fit (given my experience of them, anyway).
Mmm, that is true. Languages I've used/know of, generally have `a way out', some way to bypass this, by writing some small stub in C. Which I guess I was assuming O'Caml (or smalltalk) would have. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
