On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 06:43:07PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Since Perl is Turing complete you can run the Linux kernel inside > > Perl. Although Perl doesn't run in kernel mode ATM, I don't see why > > I can't be ported to be a LKM, maybe with RPC to glibc. You could > > also have Perl running as user mode driver or some kind daemon with > > calls from a kernel driver to the user space daemon Perl. You can > > use Perl version 5 or 6. > > My favorite suggestion, going back several decades to the early 90's, > was those who suggested porting BSD 4.3 to Emacs LISP, so that you > could run your entire system under GNU Emacs. :-)
ISAGN: drivers/staging/vi[1]. As a TTY line discipline. Surely once that thing is in, somebody will come up with Perl interpreter in vi macros. And once _that_ is done, the rest will be easy... [1] or drivers/staging/sam, for extra credits - as far as macros go, it'd be more convenient implementation platform...
