From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/09
Date: 1999-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904091616430.6091-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 370E6473.AD97011A@aasaa.ofe.org
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Starner wrote:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > Why some of us don't is that applications drive the operating system,
> > and the last successful commercial operating system that was actually
> > brand new was probably 16 years ago.
> [...]
> > Additionally, it seems doubtful the assembled multitude could
> > agree on a feature set. File versions, security constraints,
> > file naming, hardware platform, etc. are all sufficient to
> > bring to the discussion more heat than light.
>
> Well, at least write a new operating system, even if you decide on
> making it Posix complaint for compatibilty. Converting the Linux kernel
> to Ada seems like an incredibly pointless exersize, worthy only of
> language bigots. Writing a new kernel to be faster, more stable, easier
> to work and more extendable then Linux, OTOH, is worthy of any hacker.
Exactly. A rewrite of the Linux kernel in Ada might be a fun hack, but
isn't likely to attract the same interest Linux has, since Linux is the
best Linux out there.
Take a look at any of the innovative free kernels out there, like
EROS, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~eros/. Rewriting EROS in Ada (the EROS
kernel is currently written in C++) would have higher "gee-whiz" value
IMO.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-07 0:00 Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Bruce MacDonald
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-09 0:00 ` me
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` bill_
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Mich
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` OpenToken project announcement dennison
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Harry Tanovich
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` mike
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Accessing C macro constants from Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Bruce MacDonald
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Buz Cory
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
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