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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
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From: Xavier Petit <xpetit@becoast.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 17:10:06 +0200
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Le 10/05/2016 13:54, G.B. a écrit :
> iPhone is the very product that made apparent how other phones did
> not work well enough in 2007.
Yes iPhones have something other smartphones don't (according hundreds
of customers, lambda computer users) :

- Easier to use
- Quality (finition)
- “Safe value” (if you understand my google-translate english)
- Social status (just put an iPhone on the table, softly so it won't
break itself, and boom you're in)

But they don't like to have to use iTunes, and the lack (common to most
phones) of battery capacity.

Still it's expensive.

> Now compare C-BSD to Ada-BSD in terms of which will show that the
> other does not work well enough.
An Ada-BSD with the libc made of “undefined behaviors” to keep
compatibility ? And monolithic design to interact best with buggy
drivers and hardware ?

 From my pessimistic and inexperienced point of view, a lot of the
existing software should be rewritten.

So if a general usage OS written in Ada should appear, I would like to
see it like I see Ada : more advanced, stable, closer to human thinking,
not a geek toy, trully standardized, powerful, well designed. So not
something like Unix-like systems.

-- 
Xavier Petit