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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:45:14 +0100
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:12:25 +0100, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

> Yes I do. IIRC, the project failed because they completely missed the
> point. The processor was intended to be able to check the types of data
> at run-time, something that the compiler had already done. In a sense,
> it would have been a marvelous processor for any language but Ada -
> bringing Ada's type safety to other languages.

I disagree. One could perfectly complement another. If you wanted to create
a safe OS you would like to protect system objects at the hardware level
independently on whether the language does any checks or not.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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