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Subject: Re: Ada OS
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On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 02:56 +0600, I. Levashew wrote:
>  Next generation OS must be managed in a 
> functional way. One property of a function is exploited here: it's 
> deterministic.

You mean, the mathematical notion of a function, the one that
---absent monads or a similar feature---asks its programmers
to not consider the operating system issues: time and space?

>  It must produce the same results wherever and whenever it 
> was invoked.

How would a function like that implement the random numbers device?