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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it? Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 03:31:55 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <59a4ee45-23fb-4b0e-905c-cc16ce46b5f6@googlegroups.com> <46b2dce1-2a1c-455d-b041-3a9d217e2c3f@googlegroups.com> <3277d769-6503-4c7f-885f-3a730762b620@googlegroups.com> <9fa68fb7-89f0-42b3-8f25-20e70cb34d63@googlegroups.com> <87egm3u662.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <20c56bea-2803-4aa9-a626-2d25e480df20@googlegroups.com> <1dmgofrqo3xn5$.1p4241xr4z92p.dlg@40tude.net> <1066il1b5nk21.ioykgza5bnsw.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: CV72NQ0GT7rQd8cP1ZYi/A.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26112 Date: 2015-05-31T03:31:55-05:00 List-Id: On 5/30/2015 3:52 PM, jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com wrote: > I am doing a kernel module adaption at the moment and also Ada and Linux kernel fit very badly. > fyi, There was lots of discussion in making an Ada kernel/OS many years ago. I do not know what happend to these activities. Here are some threads: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/c9QzntBcAbI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/9FsfbVPsuuQ http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.ada/ada-os-based-on-minix3/1411184 http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.ada/open-source-ada-os/1412511 and more. --Nasser