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: 103376,6413b417b806eb28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Date: 1999/04/13 Message-ID: <7euild$4io$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 465745488 References: <7eg43i$d3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370CC730.4C6112DB@utech.net> <370D7007.2D3AD58B@rocketmail.com> <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com> <7elrg5$egk2@ftp.kvaerner.com> <7emjk8$rp3@drn.newsguy.com> <7ep6uj$o97$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ep9p3$9fm@drn.newsguy.com> <7eqipd$p0n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7et6j7$1qlr@news1.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Apr 13 04:54:07 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7et6j7$1qlr@news1.newsguy.com>, Samuel Mize wrote: > And this brings the discussion around full circle. There > isn't much work being done on extending Linux with Ada, > because it requires a thin binding, To claim that this is the one and only, or even a significant reason is simply not something you can prove, or even reasonably argue in my view. The Ada history is littered with sequences that go like this. 1) Ada will wildly succeed if only someone does X 2) Someone does X 3) Ada does not wildly succeed But instead of learning something, we just repeat the sequence: 1) Ada will wildly succeed if only someone does Y ... The trouble is in such scenarios is that step 1) is usually just someones blind assertion of faith, with no real study or evidence before moving on to step 2). The fact of the matter is that it is entirely possible to create useful tools for Linux, and to extend the functionality of the kernel for that matter. All it takes is (what will Dewar's magic number 1) be . . . . . . . . . . . . . work! and there is no way around this. Thin bindings nor any other magic bullet will not get around this fundamental issue! Robert Dewar -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own