From: "Thomas G. McWilliams" <tgm@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Is this ground dead? Also, info on Mach that's more recent
Date: 1998/01/17
Date: 1998-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tgmEMy5z4.9vs@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 69jr4q$44j$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu
David A. Cuthbert <dacut@henry.ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
: At any rate, relying on type safety for protection means that you
: can't use C, C++, or assembly, or anything written in those
: languages (so forget device drivers). Assembly is the killer here;
Have you used Ada? Ada is type-safe and more powerful than C for
low level bit-twiddling. Ada is a natural for device drivers and
systems programming.
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1998-01-17 0:00 ` Thomas G. McWilliams [this message]
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Is this ground dead? Also, info on Mach that's more recent David A. Cuthbert
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-19 0:00 ` feladdress.peter
1998-01-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Christopher Browne
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Is this ground dead? Also, info on Mach that's more rec Jerry van Dijk
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Compile-time type checking Nick Roberts
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