Re: Ada Operating System

[James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.com>]

>> There will be more activity at
>>
>>    http://www.adaos.org
>>
>> soon!
>
>That would be good to see. I think an OS in Ada is a noble goal that would
>likely spawn more interest in the language. You might consider aiming at
>having some realtime capabilities because this market could really use a
>good, reliable OS and it wouldn't require having a bazillion features and
>applications to make it useful. (A PC OS would be nice as a growth goal, but
>if you got as far as a scheduler that is capable of realtime & some I/O
>support, that would be enough for a lot of realtime & embedded projects.)
>
>MDC

I would like to ditto this statement.

Because I have had a renewed interest in Ada I thought I would follow
the AdaOS project and possibly even help out if I could.   I thought
that an OS written primarily in Ada would be a great platform to
learn, experiment, or "play" with Ada.   If this project ever gets off
the ground and proves to be useful I think it would do wonders for Ada
advocacy.  

I get the impression from comments that there is progress being made
behind the scenes.   However, I assume nothing (i.e. source code) is
going to be released until something is in a complete "working" state.
If this is the case,  I kind feel they have jumped the gun with
promoting the project as open source GPL and then keeping the progress
"closed".

My personal experience is I often get bogged down on the design of a
new from scratch project. I am not very good at sitting down and
planning it all out to last detail, especially a large project. When
this happens to me there are two solutions.  Take a bottom-up approach
and just start working on pieces that you know are going to be needed
in some form, or start plagiarizing someone else's code.  (At least
the latter is legal with GPLed code!)  Perhaps this is what is needed
in the case of AdaOS?

James Ross