Alan Burlison wrote:
>
> Actually, /bin/kstat is just about the worst example you could have
> chosen to illustrate your point.  /bin/kstat is a *very* thin perl
> wrapper around the Sun::Solaris::Kstat module, which in turn is almost
> entirely written in C, which is in turn just a wrapper around the
> libkstat(3LIB) C library.
>

So why is it written in perl at all, then?  If its just a thin wrapper,
then why introduce the perl runtime into the mix?

    -- Garrett
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