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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-26 21:23:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: James Ross Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:23:42 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20498 Date: 2002-02-26T23:23:42-06:00 List-Id: >> 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