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,f45b1f6d53ecbae4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Mark McKinney Subject: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Date: 1996/07/13 Message-ID: <4s8rud$9j3@tribune>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168221389 content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Concentric Internet Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22-INTUIT (Windows; U; 16bit) Date: 1996-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: It has been claimed that the capability to interface with other languages is a great asset to ada. Sometimes interfacing can be a tremendous liability. Besides the OS could perform most of work that the language runtime does. So why not build an OS in ADA?