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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dea6cc4846547f8e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Systems Software Research is Irrelevant References: <10m5so1end9a849@news.supernews.com> <43V8d.12374$HO1.866275@news20.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:23:19 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1097166198 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:23:18 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:23:18 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4880 Date: 2004-10-07T12:23:19-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Marius Amado Alves 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