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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/18 Message-ID: <3884AEC8.2B12780C@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 574318398 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85j75o$ofk$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> <387F0B20.2FC5F945@icn.siemens.de> <85nek0$j9j4@ftp.kvaerner.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: Tue Jan 18 10:19:41 2000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 948219581 198.94.156.19 (Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:19:41 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:19:41 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > /* snip */ > So the message is: Get some good applications and tools written in Ada before > comitting to an operating system. > > /*snip */ I don't see why the tools need to be in Ada, merely because the OS is. If the OS supports the Linux interfaces (as I expect Debian's Hurd will) then the tools can be freely shared among the two (three) operating systems. Tools can be written in Ada and run on Linux, so I don't see why all of the tools that run on the proposed OS would need to be Ada.