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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-26 22:25:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:15:01 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: <9mcl59$rn0$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-116-10.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 998889450 28384 128.83.168.154 (27 Aug 2001 05:17:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cc.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:17:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.9.7 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12450 Date: 2001-08-26T23:15:01-06:00 List-Id: In article <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>, "Tony Gair" wrote: > what do people think ??? If you're doing it for Ada advocacy, I would suggest instead creating some desktop applications and games. If you created a new OS written in Ada, even I wouldn't switch over if that was all that recommened it. And even if many more things recommended it, I *still* wouldn't switch unless it supported a reasonable selection of hardware, and a reasonable selection of software was available so that I could actually do my work on it. Writing a useful OS from scratch is going to be a huge project, and with Ada being a very small minority's language among hobbyists, you can't really expect the number of people chipping in like we've seen with Linux. OTOH, you could write desktop applications and games that would run anywhere, you would be more likely to actually complete them than you would an OS, you would get usable versions to the public in 1/10 the time, and (assuming you're talking about free software) you could pick something that would fill an empty niche rather than competing with one that is already well established. And people really will notice that that nifty new {application,game} is written in Ada. I remember 20 years ago when even non-programmers were aware that that nifty new game called _Wizardry_ was written in Pascal. Just my 0 cents. Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas