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From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/15
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Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
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jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) writes:
   In article <4s8rud$9j3@tribune> Mark  McKinney <mckmark@mail.concentric.net> writes:

   > liability. Besides the OS could perform most of work that the language 
   > runtime does. So why not build an OS in ADA?

   A neat idea whose time is long since gone.  The OS "wars" have been fought
   and largely lost.... :-(

I disagree. The PC desktop war looks over to me (Win 95 / Win NT) but there 
are lots of other markets open and opening. And a pure research OS, or a 
freeware OS like Linux, is always a neat idea to me :-). In fact I bet there 
are quite a few OO-OSs written in C++ that could have been written in 
Ada 95.

-- Brian