Re: ADHCP version 0.3

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:48:23 AM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
> Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Friday, November 16, 2012 5:35:29 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> In this specific case, I'm not sure what use a DHCP client would be
> >> useful for - getting IP addresses is something that has to be done
> >> very early in a system's life and thus belongs to the kernel/OS and
> >> not the application program. I could see if having use in an all-Ada
> >> system but that's about it.
> >
> > I would love to see an all-Ada [general purpose] OS, with the caveat
> > that the design is not "inspired by"/copied-from *nix.
> 
> What is it that you object to about Unix?

Mostly the design-philosophy inherited/grown[?] with C; though I'll admit to a bit of galvanizing with the response of "just download linux and modify that" in the CS dept when I said I'd like to make my own OS sometime (for fun and [self-]education). -- that's the perhaps oversimplified 1-sentence synopsis.