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From: HNBeck@t-online.de (Hans N. Beck)
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/05/03
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High,

Buz Cory schrieb:

> In article <7eg43i$d3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   Bruce MacDonald <microbards@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> > I have been casting about trying to find out if anyone is rewriting the Linux
> > kernel in a high level language, such as Ada.
>
> I am *extremely* interested in such a project. In fact I even mentioned
> it to the ELKS group about a year and a half ago, drawing a lot of
> flames for my trouble and not much else.
>
> However, in the followups to this original post, there was no mention of
> any such existing project nor of actually *doing* anything!
>
> > Is anyone else interested in a project like this?
>
> If you are interested in *working* on such a project (either in coding,
> managing, contributing to overall design, doing research for/in existing
> documentation, writing docs, etc) please send me email (not posts to
> this thread). I will collect the names and addresses and periodically
> send the entire list to those that are on it (only). Updates about a
> week after a name is received that is not already on the list seems
> about right.
>

sorry, I've lost the focus on the discussion. Do you want to create aexactly copy
of the linux we now have, or would you develop some kind
of new ("modern") kernel with linux (posix) shell above ?

Hans
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