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-Thread: a07f3367d7,dea2d62ab1462538 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:31:01 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <8e9bc311-7540-40a1-b19e-49e93648c25c@s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com> <3t7l4nep6nxx$.q8ux8y7cxfgd$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1263470481 11279 195.25.228.57 (14 Jan 2010 12:01:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:01:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <3t7l4nep6nxx$.q8ux8y7cxfgd$.dlg@40tude.net> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8745 Date: 2010-01-14T12:31:01+01:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit : > I disagree. One could perfectly complement another. If you wanted to create > a safe OS you would like to protect system objects at the hardware level > independently on whether the language does any checks or not. > They claimed that the CPU was "putting Ada on silicon". What I mean is that the value of Ada is to check many things at compile time; anything that's on silicon will have to wait until execution time. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr