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From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/15
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It has been claimed that the capability to interface with other languages
is a great asset to ada. Sometimes interfacing can be a tremendous
liability. Besides the OS could perform most of work that the language
runtime does. So why not build an OS in ADA?

Check out RTEMS at the very least!

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