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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-14 08:01:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:01:17 +0100 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3C90C94D.E8BB96F2@icn.siemens.de> References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21234 Date: 2002-03-14T17:01:17+01:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Rewriting the Linux kernel in Ada doesn't give anybody anything they don't > already have. Why would they glom onto an Ada OS that was identical to a C > OS if the C OS is more widespread, more mature, more supported, more > developed-for, more understood, etc. etc. etc. etc.? So choose OS/2 instead. It's not "widespread" ;-) > Ada. It also has to offer the computing world *something* it doesn't > otherwise get by using someone else's product or there will be near-zero > reasons to use it. Support. And a perspective to be continued.