Samba, Python, and two lions going head to head.

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-January/038989.html 
has a really neat thread to read. One thing I noticed is that people 
spend a lot of time talking about memory allocation, which could be 
avoided with a pure higher language approach. I really do think a 
pure-Python Samba would be a cool thing, but at this point that's 
basically unthinkable. The main benefit would probably be developer 
time, and of course, security. I'm not sure why Samba is written in C 
come to think of it. Perhaps there is a thread on that as well.

Regardless, the Samba team is doing some neat work, even if you don't 
care about Samba itself. It's interesting to see how a large open source 
project works, and how what personalities work in that context.

-dave

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