From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Operating systems written in Ada
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:51:24 +0100
Date: 2012-12-23T14:51:24+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wprvfyriule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fe7bbf18-a445-453d-9602-4382b971c3b3@googlegroups.com
Le Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:47:04 +0100, <alb348@gmail.com> a écrit:
> I was wondering, why is it that of the many Operating Systems written in
> Ada (see http://commons.ada.cx/Operating_Systems_written_in_Ada), none
> of them really took off? Not only that, but the average computer user
> has not even heard of them.
> Do you envisage that a large-scale commercial or even open-source OS
> destined for the masses could be written in Ada, and be successful? In
> theory, yes, of course... but in practice?
Simple: for the end user of the mass and more, an OS does not mean a
kernel, but a platform; it requires numerous applications which are not a
piece of cake, like browser, office suite, media authoring and rendering,
…. Without it, a platform wont took off, and if it's not as part of such a
platform, a kernel is unlikely to took off (except as a specific use
kernel, but that's not any more as a kernel of a platform for the mass).
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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2012-12-23 12:47 Operating systems written in Ada alb348
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