Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
> : Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> :> I have Plan 9 on my "to do" list, but one of the things
> :> that puts me off is that likelyhood of no GNAT compiler.
> : 
> : You just described my position :-)
> 
> I think you might be impressed with how you operate the system, even
> when not using a compiler at all. It's a different perspective,
> it looks and feels different. A valuable source of ideas I think.
> (There are some programming languages, including a cleaned up and
> extended C, aleph, some functional languages, ...)

I have already examined the ideas and strengths of the O/S, and
have already been suitably impressed -- but as a person who likes
to write code in Ada, I _still_ need an Ada compiler. aleph et al
can be interesting too, but this is academic
to my needs (ok for idle curiosity).

But an O/S that I won't develop for (for lack of Ada), doesn't
work for me.  But perhaps as Marius Amado Alves has suggested,
perhaps some feeble attempt at compiling GNAT there someday is
just a tiny bit closer ;-)
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg