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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-06 10:26:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:31:26 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3D78E66E.983D7B51@adaworks.com> References: <3D628304.3040506@cogeco.ca> <3d6e9cb6.75108980@news.cis.dfn.de> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.a8.9f Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 6 Sep 2002 17:26:01 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28762 Date: 2002-09-06T17:26:01+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > By the way, there is a simple overview of AdaOS now available at > > http://www.adaos.net The architecture looks pretty good. Hope you can bring it to completion. One comment. I am concerned about calling it AdaOS. At present, anything with the name Ada in it is likely to be ignored by the larger audience you would hope to gain. The published product would do well to stand on its own, support languages besides Ada, and have a name that makes Ada less of an explicit issue. In time, people concerned with the technology will realize that it is written in Ada, while those who simply want to get some work done will use it without any knowledge of its underlying implementation. Meanwhile, if this project gets to the point where we can see it becoming a reality, some of us ought to get busy writing applications for it. The only way it will become popular is if real people use it. Those real people will need spreadsheets, word processors, etc. Richard Riehle