Reimplenting Linux Kernel in Python

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-10-13, Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:

> To put it simply, it does not make sense, in its pure form.
> Linux is written in C for a lot of good reasons: portability,
> need to access the hardware, and performance comes to mind.

Definitely.

> Besides that, Linux is Posix compliant and emulates Unix
> system calls to a large extend, and that also makes C a
> natural choice.

Not sure I follow on that point.  Any low level language that
can deal with a C "struct" and byte-addressible memory would be
fine.

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