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: 2002-03-13 16:20:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!dc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!154.32.99.10.MISMATCH!psiuk-p2!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: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:49:24 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1016027366 18583 136.170.200.133 (13 Mar 2002 13:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2002 13:49:26 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:21176 Date: 2002-03-13T13:49:26+00:00 List-Id: Rewriting the Linux kernel in Ada doesn't give anybody anything they don't already have. Why would they glom onto an Ada OS that was identical to a C OS if the C OS is more widespread, more mature, more supported, more developed-for, more understood, etc. etc. etc. etc.? That's just Ada going "Me too!!!" and there's no perceived advantage to grabbing a product that lags behind something else. Nobody (well, almost nobody) is going to want an OS or any other software just because it was written in some specific language. If an OS is going to be built in Ada, its worth taking a look at it from a clean slate and doing it in such a way that it exploits the best features of Ada. It also has to offer the computing world *something* it doesn't otherwise get by using someone else's product or there will be near-zero reasons to use it. 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/ "Pam Kelly" wrote in message news:a6m8h5$rpb$1@helle.btinternet.com... > Hard to know which post to reply to but for what it's worth ... > > Linux has a huge following because it's free, there are masses of GPL > applications available for it and there are increasingly a very significant > number of heavy duty commercial applications available. > > So rewrite the Linux kernel in Ada. People might try it as a curiosity since > they'll be able to use all their existing applications. It won't be > frightening. > > Pick some applications with a long track record of vulnerabilities such as > sendmail or bind. Rewrite them in Ada. There'll be more vulnerabilities > reported and the Ada versions will be immune. Publicise it. > > The security community will start taking an interest. Because it is > compatible with existing applications it's a viable os as it stands. They > start to recommend an incremental move to applications written in Ada. > > Then you can substitute a new improved kernel. > > We're working on it. If you're interested let me know. >