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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,36288d1c39303ceb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 06:54:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B296913.1F13E65D@engineer.com> Subject: Re: Porting GNAT to Debian Hurd Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:53:41 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:53:41 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8777 Date: 2001-06-15T13:53:41+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B296913.1F13E65D@engineer.com>, B. Douglas Hilton says... > >Has anybody successfully ported GNAT to any strange platforms? That depends on what you consider strange. :-) >Hurd, a somewhat "bleeding-edge" operating system could probably >benefit from having some particularly pesky apps rewritten in Ada, >although thick bindings to mach.h, and /include/hurd seems to be >a particularly formidable task. One of my occasional daydreams involves an OS getting "taken over" by Ada as more and more of its apps are written using it. That would lead to device-drivers, which would eventually lead to Ada starting to seep into the kernel sources. Finally the remainder of the kernel would just get rewritten in Ada to make things more consistent (and maintainable). Hurd's at a good place for such a takeover, but I don't think Ada is yet. We just don't quite have the volunteer manpower. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com