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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f45b1f6d53ecbae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi) Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169148705 sender: news@biosys.apldbio.COM references: <4s8rud$9j3@tribune> original-sender: nasser@apldbio.com organization: Applied BioSystems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: From: Mark McKinney 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).