in reply to What is Perl *NOT* good at?

I once wrote a Linux device driver in pure perl, just to see if I could. I wouldn't recommend it, except as a learning experience.

The remarkable thing is that it was possible at all. Not many "scripting" languages offer ioctl. A chunk of the code is posted here at Linux ioctl command module.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Re: What is Perl *NOT* good at?
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Apr 21, 2004 at 13:38 UTC
    I would have whipped out Inline::C for the purpose. But really, when you say you wrote a device driver in pure perl, did you really get something you could insmod? I'm skeptical. As for manipulating device drivers (config apps), etc, yeah I can see it wouldn't be bad at all. But I'd still use Inline or XS to a real C ioctl call rather than Perl's beast with the extra gorp.
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