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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-25 09:33:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:31:55 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <2dFic.16950$eK3.5881@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1082910692 52241 212.85.156.195 (25 Apr 2004 16:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:31:32 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <2dFic.16950$eK3.5881@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>; from Hyman Rosen at Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:17:34 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7472 Date: 2004-04-25T20:31:55+04:00 Hyman Rosen wrote: > Thomas Gagn� wrote: > > Perhaps it's time for such a thing to be attempted. > > Intel 432, Symbolics Lisp machines, probably a host of others. > Such things have been attempted, and are now consigned to the > ash heaps of history. > > It should be obvious why. When you have good, fast general > purpose hardware, you can implement all sorts of cockamamie > ideas on it, and if something doesn't work out, you can try > something else. When you start implementing those ideas in > hardware and they don't work out, you're left with a useless > boat anchor. Yes. Ironically enough, this is exactly about the same thing - late/early binding, is this case (of building ideas into hardware) in almost literal, material sense. Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia