From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...
Date: 1998/05/01
Date: 1998-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.894029184@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Apr30.180141.1@eisner
Larry said
<<I find it strange that even in comp.lang.ada a distinguished contributor
would express the assumption that the operating system was written in C.
>>
Perhaps that is because the distinguished contributor lives in the real
world, and not a wishful-thinking world! In practice the definition
expressed here is a useful one, since of course it is almost always
the case that the operating system involved will have substantial
chunks written in C (probably it won't be 100% C, there will be C++,
and perhaps assembly .....)
It would be a nice excercise to rewrite the Linux kernel in Ada, and indeed
the comparison of the effort involved, and the final results would make
an interesting student research paper. This is by no means an out of scope
effort. The core of the kernel is not a gigantic program.
But until such a thing is done, I am afraid that Larry will continue
to find the real world strange :-)
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-07 0:00 Urgent question: malloc and ada Guido Tesch
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-04-30 0:00 ` Urgent question: malloc and ada Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-05-02 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-05-12 0:00 ` Craig T. Spannring
1998-05-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <matthew_heaney-ya023680003004981723000001@news.ni.net>
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-02 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP Fergus Henderson
1998-05-01 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-05-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Urgent question: malloc and ada Robert Dewar
1998-04-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-04-12 0:00 ` Enumeration Types (was: Urgent question: malloc and ada) Matthew Heaney
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
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