Re: ODRe: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)]

>Yours and all the other responses have renewed my interest in Ada, so I'll
>be taking a closer look. It's great to see so much public domain work being
>done on Ada via GNAT, etc. I wish there was as much interest in M2. But
>still, my feeling is that the differences between ISO M2 and Ada, wrt strong
>typing, generics, exceptions, are far less than the difference between C and
>Ada. And then when the gov gets involved, things become even more relative.
>It seems that any great language, whether it be M2 or Ada, is devalued when
>it is used on a OS platform written in C/C++. Would the discussion not be
>more interesting if we were talking about Ada running on an OS written in
>Ada, and M2 running on an OS written in M2?

If you are interested in writing OSes in M2, this maybe is easier now than
it used to be.

I have some msgs who does the same in Pascal (using FPC), and specially
GRUB, but since M2 now also has a GNU compiler, you can imagine that for M2
too:

GRUB is something as "GNU ? Universal Bootloader" and can directly boot
statically linked ELF binaries as kernel from e2fs, ufs and fat filesystems.

So if your compiler can have a nearly empty footprint (as most GNU compiler
can, and FPC too (12 bytes)), then you can easily experiment with your own
OS :_)