Alex Makhotin wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
When you've built up such a store in one language, it would take an
incredible push to change.
Linux kernel is a large monolithic monster, one single bug can bring the
system down.
So considering this, Linus is right. He afraid of one single language
feature may be the source of myriad of bugs, just because the language
allows to use it, and assuming the worst case - everybody will misuse
the feature as they always do.
I agree that there's no freakin' way the Linux kernel could be moved to another
language, regardless of the merits of that language. However, other independent
utilities could be.
