From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 6 9:23:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB54137B405 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f86GOCg18059; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:24:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:24:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200109061624.f86GOCg18059@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: imp@harmony.village.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >In message <3B96D48F.8030105@yahoo.com> Jim Bryant writes: >: I doubt if the bootloader will ever change from FORTH, but if it >: does, I suggest LISP as the preferred choice on a short-list of >: potential replacements. > >It would make it very cool junior kernel hacker task to use lisp in >the boot loader... Hmm. Other cool tasks include: - substituting for in correct places and vice versa. - fixing incorrect code indentation. - wholesale removal of _P() prototypes. - rewriting all perl scripts in sh. - using Java instead of C in the kernel. All of the above will provide much needed features and functionality for the upcoming 5.0 release. They will dramatically raise the bar and provide a significant performance boost for the system. After all, it is well known(*) than LISP is already SMP capable, while Forth is single threaded, and it is critically important that the bootloader be SMP enabled. :-) Seriously now, don't we have better things to spend our time and energies on than re-implementing code that already works? -- Jonathan (*) 4 out of 5 handwavers agree on this point, according to the Journal of Irreproducible Results and Department of FUD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message