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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F0B20.2FC5F945@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572519786 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85j75o$ofk$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I think the spread of an (popular) OS is wider than that of any application (maybe except of Quake or Flight simulator). And this would show to the common, the use (and usability) of Ada for great projects. Ok, there maybe other large projects done in Ada, but most of them have a great disadvantage - they are secret. Juergen Pfeifer wrote: > > I don't believe that writing an OS will push Ada. Ok, an OS is a fascinating > piece of software, but on the other hand it is nothing more than a necessary > evil. An OS in itself has no value, it is just there to serve applications. > > I believe a good way to attract attention for Ada is to write a popular > application or service in Ada. For example there are some projects on the > way to put together a comprehensive game package infrastructure. Games can > be much more complex and sophisiticated than an OS. And Ada is an excellent > choice for that. > > J�rgen > > "Alfred Hilscher" schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:<387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de>... > > Hi all, > > > > yesterdy - while surfing - I found an interessting link: > > http://www.quasarbbs.com/daniel/freeosidx.html There are some people how > > want write a free OS/2 clone. They decided to use C (what else :-( ). > > But as the project is still in a very early phase, I think about whether > > we should participate and try to revise the decision to use Ada instead. > > This could be a chance to push Ada. What do you think about ?