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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ff2b70d3b014281 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-28 09:10:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Ada95 on Plan9/Inferno In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011028085136.A29500-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:10:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1004289025 206.184.139.136 (Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:10:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:10:25 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15312 Date: 2001-10-28T17:10:25+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Clueless wrote: > Lately I've been seriously considering developing some apps for the Plan9 > and Inferno Operating system platforms. What is the market for Plan9/Inferno like? What's the composition of the user community? I looked at some of the online docs a while ago and I thought the Dis VM was timely considering the whole Java explosion. Too bad Sun hype was better. It seems that most of the VMs map relatively closely to Ada 95 constructs. I wonder if this is related to the efforts during the design of Ada 95 to efficiently implementable (with current technology of course) building blocks, or if its something more mundane, like the fact that the VMs all look like Java, which isn't too far from Ada? It would be cool to have Ada on the JVM, .NET CLR, and running atop the Inferno on their virtual machine too. Ada could be the Queen of the Virtual Machine. Sorry, no real information. -- Brian