Re: Ada Operating System

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Yeah. You could do that. You could take the Linux code and add just about
any ideas you wanted to add and not have to build an OS from bottom dead
center.

But that was not the point I was trying to make. The point was: "If you want
to write an OS in Ada because you like Ada and want to help promote the use
of Ada then including features/capabilities not found in other OS's would
help make this hypothetical OS attractive to some segment of the market and
help promote its use."

IOW, an Ada application being developed to help promote Ada needs to offer
something more/better than similar applications in other languages. If the
Ada app just duplicates line-for-line something done in C or Java or
something else, then what incentive is there to use the Ada version? Nobody
cares much about what's inside unless it makes some kind of difference to
them outside.

MDC
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3C8CCA42.4080506@mail.com...
>
> If you're just talking about adding some privacy
> feature to an OS, I don't see much point in writing
> a new OS from scratch just to get that feature. Why
> not just add it to an existing OS?
>