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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-12 06:02:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:04:55 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C8A3999.2000301@earthlink.net> <3C8B0191.3080705@mail.com> <3C8CC364.98AA7C63@despammed.com> <3C8CCA42.4080506@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1015862694 4147 136.170.200.133 (11 Mar 2002 16:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Mar 2002 16:04:54 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21117 Date: 2002-03-11T16:04:54+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Hyman Rosen" 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? >