From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572550176 References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85j75o$ofk$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> <387F0B20.2FC5F945@icn.siemens.de> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 947856798 5284 129.241.83.82 (14 Jan 2000 13:33:18 GMT) Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jan 2000 13:33:18 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T13:33:18+00:00 List-Id: Alfred Hilscher writes: | I think the spread of an (popular) OS is wider than that of any | application (maybe except of Quake or Flight simulator). And this would | show to the common, the use (and usability) of Ada for great projects. | Ok, there maybe other large projects done in Ada, but most of them have | a great disadvantage - they are secret. Well how do you get the OS to become popular? Remember Linux was started in 1991. I'm not so sure a new OS would be able to compete so well against Linux. It would have to be able to run Linux apps and use device drivers available for Linux. Otherwise not much hardware would be supported. My point is that making an OS is a much bigger task than making popular applications that people need and will use to do their everyday activity. If they then want to change the app, they need to learn Ada95 to do so, as the source code would be in Ada95. Thus one could attract more people to Ada95. -- Preben Randhol For me, Ada95 puts back [randhol@pvv.org] the joy in programming. [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] [http://www.gnuada.org/]