Re: Trouble with UNIX IPC and Ada95

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <8om5tn$q0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, wv12@my-deja.com writes:
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>> "trust C"?  That's not exactly the question.  If the program is
> properly
>> designed in nearly any programming language, then it will work
> properly.
>> The problem is that it's more difficult to properly design a program
> in C
>> than in some other languages.
> Apparently this is not the case. Twenty years after IBM launches the
> IBM PC, you see a myriads of operating systems written in C: MINIX,
> XINU, Linux, XENIX, FreeBSD, etc... I haven't seen anything in Ada
> on any PC that provides half the functionality of DOS. Maybe there
> is a language that makes OS design become a walk in the park. That
> language is not Ada.

I think you will find any Ada work concentrated in embedded systems.

Do you have any evidence the language choice for those other operating
systems were based on features of the language ?  It seems to me more
likely based on habit.