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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
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On 05/09/2016 01:14 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> But your real point is that it is 2016, and what is the point of recreating
> a 40-year old design? If we can't do better today (on some dimension of
> "better"), that means that CS is completely stalled since then (and that's
> clearly not true; SPARK alone disproves it). There's also the practical
> issue: If you actually wanted someone to use it, you'd need to offer
> something different. Oliver's reply gives some approaches to that problem.

Unfortunately, it's 2016, and almost everything is either Windows or some flavor 
of Unix these days, neither of which is very new. Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and 
Chrome OS, to name a few, are all Yet Another Version of Unix.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"How'd you like to hide the egg and gurgitate
a few saucers of mocha java?"
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