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: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Date: 1999/04/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 464615870 References: <7eg43i$d3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370CC730.4C6112DB@utech.net> <370D7007.2D3AD58B@rocketmail.com> <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com> <1999Apr9.143759.1@eisner> <370E6473.AD97011A@aasaa.ofe.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 923700837 221 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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