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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/07
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Date: 1999-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Bruce MacDonald <microbards@my-dejanews.com> writes:

> I have been casting about trying to find out if anyone is rewriting the Linux
> kernel in a high level language, such as Ada.

I don't know.


> Is anyone else interested in a project like this? 

Yes, I would be.

But I would also look at the work being done by the Debian people on
HURD.  That OS is still in its early stages.


> Would the Intermetrics C2Ada tool be the appropriate starting place
> for this project?

How writing some device drivers in Ada first, to get things moving
along.