From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,f168e591f1f30aab X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.181.140 with SMTP id by12mr11085528qab.0.1356362180483; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.24.13 with SMTP id q13mr3255381qef.33.1356362180419; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:16:20 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni2110qap.0!nntp.google.com!ee4no2093375qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:16:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.201.41.175; posting-account=aCLEfwoAAAAOAatsIFtV_Z_eteRd3roE NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.201.41.175 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0f65f35c-3765-400d-b004-2db04f7fc63c@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Operating systems written in Ada From: montezf@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:16:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-12-24T07:16:20-08:00 List-Id: > Do you envisage that a large-scale commercial or even open-source OS destined for the masses could be written in Ada, and be successful? In theory, yes, of course... but in practice? Well if we're talking about could be's I would say yes. But not likely any time soon. Probably the most realistic way it could happen, would be if a giant used it in such a way that it had mass appeal. e.g. Objective-C.