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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 17:03:27 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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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.

Exactly my point: if you want anyone to replace those (generally used 
because they're easy, cheap, and "good enough"), you have to provide 
something much better. (As the iPhone did to the smartphone market, for 
example). Making yet another copy of Unix isn't going to provide much 
interest (or value).

                                     Randy.