From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Ada OS
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:34:29 +1100
Date: 2007-11-24T11:34:29+11:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa43auw32i2.fsf@snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fi67ih$ms8$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hermann <ica2ph@lucky.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
Peter> It is self-evident that an OS from scratch would be a
Peter> gigantic costly endeavor when written from scratch. OTOH
Peter> Linus Torvalds is wise enough to identify Ada as a useful
Peter> tool to replace pieces of C-code bit by bit towards
Peter> temporary coexistence of both languages. The biggest
Peter> advantage is the deep knowledge of weak points (if any) of
Peter> the architecture of Linux.
A better approach might be to rewrite modules from The Hurd in Ada, as
in The Hurd most things are run as independent user level
processes. So you wouldn't have to redo everything from scratch.
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-19 13:14 Ada OS Peter Hermann
2007-11-19 18:37 ` tmoran
2007-11-20 10:13 ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-21 20:11 ` Lucretia
2007-11-22 10:13 ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-22 14:50 ` Lucretia
2007-11-23 2:08 ` anon
2007-11-23 9:46 ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-23 13:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-11-24 0:34 ` Brian May [this message]
2007-11-27 1:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-12-20 7:52 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-20 7:54 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-21 11:29 ` anon
2007-12-24 5:41 ` Paul
2007-12-26 19:49 ` OpenBSD and Ada (was: Re: Ada OS) Tero Koskinen
2007-12-28 15:04 ` Ada lacks support greatly (was: OpenBSD and Ada) Rico Secada
2007-12-30 20:28 ` Ada lacks support greatly Florian Weimer
2007-12-29 0:39 ` OpenBSD and Ada Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-26 20:56 ` Ada OS I. Levashew
2007-12-26 21:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-26 22:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-27 9:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-28 1:28 ` I. Levashew
2008-01-08 16:07 ` Thomas Preymesser
2008-01-08 18:04 ` anon
2008-01-08 19:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-08 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 22:34 ` anon
2008-01-09 1:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2008-01-09 19:32 ` anon
2008-01-09 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-09 21:15 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 21:27 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 22:19 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-09 8:04 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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2002-08-10 8:16 ` AFS97209
2002-08-10 18:32 ` Caffeine Junky
2002-08-11 4:10 ` Marc Spitzer
2002-08-11 4:32 ` Christopher Browne
2002-08-12 7:47 ` antoine terrienne
2002-08-13 17:43 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-13 15:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-08-13 16:44 ` Christopher Browne
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