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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,de4046858a88bacb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!out01a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:34:29 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3c1ea5f7-586a-4101-81cd-857711c63042@d61g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hop/d2x4eha/sGpVlFExzQJG/fs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18595 Date: 2007-11-24T11:34:29+11:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hermann 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