From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: hypothetical question
Date: 5 Jul 2001 11:51:42 -0500
Date: 2001-07-05T11:51:42-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cScfJwUl$Roy@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3b448a6d@news.iprimus.com.au
In article <3b448a6d@news.iprimus.com.au>, "Karl Fitz" <vampyre_16@hotmail.com> writes:
> in my random thoughts as a 'newbie' programmer,
> I begin to wonder the possibillity of creating an Operating System entirely
> with ada. Or would it be better to use a variety of programming languages...
> many questions arise from this but it intruiges me,
> would it be more/less, stable (as a compasion to other Os) ?
> '' '' '' , resource hungry.... ?
> Im sure that it is entirely possible but i guess the real question is ....
> would it be practical ?
It would certainly be practical, but the initial creation would not
be any cheaper than creating a new operating system in _any_ language.
The cost of creating an operating system is extremely high - ask
Microsoft or IBM.
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2001-07-05 15:53 ` hypothetical question Ted Dennison
2001-07-05 16:51 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-07-05 16:10 ` Al Christians
2001-07-06 1:05 ` B. Douglas Hilton
2001-07-06 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-06 21:41 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-07-07 10:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-05 18:01 ` chris.danx
2001-07-05 21:51 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-06 10:32 ` chris.danx
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