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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee887b7593f7961b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.k-dsl.de!ramfeed1.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng1.kpn.DE!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada OS based on Minix3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:58:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1pmkcuemqczer.j2i34pvc2lne$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2008 09:58:04 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 89053e38.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=gLCoC0]18`185[]]\]T081A9EHlD;3Yc24Fo<]lROoR1^YC2XCjHcb91@B;VFgj1H7DNcfSJ;bb[5FCTGGVUmh?4LK[5LiR>kg2ZUR58lkcc51 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2626 Date: 2008-11-10T09:58:04+01:00 List-Id: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:12:10 -0800 (PST), Ivan Levashew wrote: > Two general problems of starting an enterprise Ada project are as > follows: > Lack of libraries > Lack of developers First of all, lack of ideas. It makes no sense to make yet another linux. In my opinion an Ada OS, if there should be one, must be fully OO and have native Ada interface. In order to achieve this, much has to be done at the language level first. An OO OS is unthinkable without MI, MD and safe (non-cooperative) tasks and protected objects. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de