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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...
Date: 1998/05/01
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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 :-)