From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 22:27:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E289637B71A for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Y0FQ-0000GO-00; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:38:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3A9C9CCC.4F9B521D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:38:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org, dillon@earth.backplane.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. References: <200102260529.f1Q5T8413011@curve.dellroad.org> <200102261755.f1QHtvr34064@earth.backplane.com> <200102270624.WAA17949@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <3A9BAAF9.C75B39BF@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > Arun Sharma wrote: > > > > On 26 Feb 2001 18:56:18 +0100, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > Ha. Right. Go through any piece of significant code and just see how > > > much goes flying out the window because the code wants to simply assume > > > things work. Then try coding conditionals all the way through to fix > > > it... and don't forget you need to propogate the error condition back > > > up the procedure chain too so the original caller knows why it failed. > > > > So, it all comes down to reimplementing the UNIX kernel in a language > > that supports exceptions, just like Linus suggested :) > > I've often considered writing a language SPECIFICALLY for writing the kernel. > (no other uses) > > I mean it basically uses the same mechaninsims over and over and over again... > > linked lists, hash tables, nested loops, etc.etc. > > I'd like a language that lets me define the module I'm writing, > define the way it should behave, and let the boring code be taken care of > by itelf :-) Oh, like C++ & STL? /me ducks and runs, trying not to gag. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message