[oclug] Oldest Linux install?

[Olaf Baumann]

On 26-Feb-05, at 12:15 PM, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:

> Thanks Milan,
> I will have a look at the config file for building the kernel.  I 
> wondered
> why no one had created a web page in some language like Perl or PHP to 
> click
> options and then after running a check to see if the options were 
> valid,
> create a kernel.  Hey, wait a minute, I'm learning Java, maybe this is 
> my
> first Java project.

Around 2001, Eric Raymond proposed CML 
[http://www.catb.org/~esr/cml2/], an alternative way configure the 
linux kernel.  It was a Python-based mini-language.  You could look 
into that for some background for your project.

Mini-languages are a tradition made popular by the finding that the 
ratio of errors to lines of code is fairly constant regardless of the 
language [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/minilanguageschapter.html].  
Instead of programming in a general-purpose language it is sometimes 
more effective to create a special-purpose language and a program to 
interpret it.

-- 
Olaf