From: nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/15
Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nhivbqs1rq.fsf@paralysys> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4s8rud$9j3@tribune
From: Mark McKinney <mckmark@mail.concentric.net>
It has been claimed that the capability to interface with other languages
is a great asset to ada. Sometimes interfacing can be a tremendous
liability. Besides the OS could perform most of work that the language
runtime does. So why not build an OS in ADA?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The question should be: why build another OS ? we allready have
too many.
bye the way, I saw a book many years ago, where some people
did develop some sort of operating system in Ada83, offcourse
it was a research type OS system, not a "real" commercial
one, do not know now the name of the book, but it was around
1988 or so.
Building a "real" OS is a very large job, it takes years and years,
with large teams of people working on it, and very few companies
can committ to something like this very easily regardless of the
language used.
Nasser
--
Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. GeneAssist - A client/server application
for Nucleic acid and protein sequence search and analysis.
Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division. email: nasser@apldbio.com
MSEE(control), MSCS, MSCE, FM (Fide Chess Master).
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1996-07-13 0:00 Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Mark McKinney
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi [this message]
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1996-07-17 0:00 ` Randy Greene
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1996-07-15 0:00 ` David Wheeler
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1996-07-25 0:00 ` Greg Harvey
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Mark Eichin
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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