From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: hypothetical question
Date: 7 Jul 2001 05:54:28 -0500
Date: 2001-07-07T05:54:28-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kiFdJznVccV3@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9i6lkf$bqi$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu
In article <9i6lkf$bqi$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> In article <cScfJwUl$Roy@eisner.encompasserve.org>, "Larry Kilgallen"
> <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote:
>
>
>> It would certainly be practical, but the initial creation would not be
>> any cheaper than creating a new operating system in _any_ language.
>
> However, we'd all like to think that the even-more-expensive task of
> *maintaining* an OS would be cheaper if the OS were developed in Ada.
But the tough part is getting to the start of the maintenance phase :-)
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2001-07-05 15:53 ` hypothetical question Ted Dennison
2001-07-05 16:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 [this message]
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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