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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 12:37:03 -0500 Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> From: Norman Worth Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:37:04 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-KThoQAFCMV1SHSsz3VUP9Rx7wjz5JdVSgcX7UWzEaVucXB66EvXk6hP/SUBpNmIHCB+UQXrZ6Ja8xOw!Y+20L7lnYgCoZ2rQqYJmHW/dGwgntDebtbnsB+Tr1xuUH6G8sLPzHpAF+g6VS4bXofVUjlvJlsw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1546 X-Received-Bytes: 1658 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2595198628 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30418 Date: 2016-05-16T11:37:04-06:00 List-Id: On 5/2/2016 4:51 PM, endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com wrote: > Like with all we know now......rewrite in ada? > Regardless of its merits, someone actually had a project to do this a couple of years back. I can see nothing in Ada that would prevent it, and it might be more reliable than the C patchworks we are living with today.