From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF19BC37 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:07:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoMBALYoikrLOwGUkWdsb2JhbACbCAEBAQEJCwoHEwS8eYQZBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,401,1246831200"; d="scan'208";a="31271019" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.148]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2009 13:07:26 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAPcnikrLzuai/2dsb2JhbADYPoQZBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,401,1246809600"; d="scan'208";a="493124067" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2009 19:07:23 +0800 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B3871070D9 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:07:23 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:07:23 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know) Message-Id: <20090818210723.c45efcaf.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <4A8A8979.4010705@bik-gmbh.de> References: <1250027407.4019.123.camel@nyc-qws-007.delacy.com> <200908171459.01872.toots@rastageeks.org> <7c737f300908171302q6c251441u35ed3bd99552bd46@mail.gmail.com> <200908171526.52574.toots@rastageeks.org> <3c1674c90908171430m12c4a3e7pa96cc5e60df72b17@mail.gmail.com> <20090818084452.f9df0801.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <3c1674c90908171622j79ec5df1ob4e6236dff3a1b36@mail.gmail.com> <20090818093300.a041d75a.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <4A8A8979.4010705@bik-gmbh.de> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 hars:01 ocaml:01 haskell:01 haskell:01 low-level:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 kernel:02 kernel:02 florian:03 erik:04 erik:04 kernels:04 kernels:04 Florian Hars wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > > That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device > > drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). > > People do use Haskell in developing OS kernels, and you can't get more > low-level than that: > > http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/approach.pml The Linux kernel which is the one I am interested in is C only. For the Linux kernel I very much doubt it is ever going to be possible to write drivers in Ocaml or Haskell even if that is possible for other kernels now. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/