Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 14 Sty, 11:28, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> > But I do not see how the OO approach would solve that problem. Plug
> > the OO-aware drive from the OO-aware system from Microsoft into your
> > OO-aware system of choice and you will be in the same mess.
>
> Sure. But your argument was that a file system would handle it better. It
> does not.

The file system handles the data exchange between systems that were
written with different paradigms in mind.
Your objects would be transportable only between OO systems. That
would be a huge portability limitation for me.

In this context, the advantage of the file system is that it does not
impose any assumptions about the OS itself. That's why my USB stick
works everywhere.

> What is the opposite paradigm? I don't care much about OO, I do about ADT.
> The real alternatives are typed vs untyped. I think we have been using the
> latter for too long and it won't stand up safety and quality requirements
> of future omnipresent computing.

I'm afraid that the omnipresent computing will bring us omnipresent
untypedness - or at least this is the current trend, if popularity of
programming languages is to be taken as any indication...

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