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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e976b2d06bac8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.85.102 with SMTP id g6mr2514392paz.5.1353259574260; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.42.194 with SMTP id q2mr1536688igl.11.1353259574220; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:26:14 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni12298pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kr7no15188065pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:26:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: <283d1708-03c5-4926-b6ce-ac3271af67c2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <267d9148-a56d-488b-8963-5559209fa876@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: ADHCP version 0.3 From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:26:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-11-18T09:26:14-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:48:23 AM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote: > Shark8 writes: > > On Friday, November 16, 2012 5:35:29 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote: > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> 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. >=20 > What is it that you object to about Unix? Mostly the design-philosophy inherited/grown[?] with C; though I'll admit t= o 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.