[TAG] One for Ben

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Ben Okopnik wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/
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>>Perl Linux. A distribution where everything, except the kernel and Perl, 
>>is written in Perl.
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>Wow. Weird. I'm very familiar with the Perl Power Tools (essentially,
>the GNU toolkit for Unix reimplemented in Perl) - in fact, I recommend
>them to my students as a bunch of well-written code to study; I also
>think it's a really good idea of the same kind as having a
>statically-compiled shell. An entire Perl-based distro, though? Is there
>a _point_ to straining a Camel [1] through the eye of a needle? I mean,
>cool that it can be done... but you end up with pureed camel, and who
>wants that?  Messy.
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It's based on PPT, with a few extra utils from other sources. It's a 
fairly nutty idea, true, but not as nuts as that project to write 
filesystems in Perl.

>[1] Contrary to popular belief, the mascot's name is _not_ "OCaml".
>Sheesh.
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Someone actually thinks that?