From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a37:80c:: with SMTP id 12mr37097503qki.149.1596070626857; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:57:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:ac8:4719:: with SMTP id f25mr540899qtp.291.1596070626699; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:57:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2606:a000:1501:717:84ca:74eb:c71c:22c7; posting-account=bDZo8goAAADwRO71ouDFRMCIZ96XBCK3 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2606:a000:1501:717:84ca:74eb:c71c:22c7 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <00cd3aaa-d518-43a2-b321-58d6fae70aebo@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: is there a version of unix written in Ada From: gdotone@gmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:57:06 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59596 List-Id: On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 6:11:49 PM UTC-4, gdo...@gmail.com wrote: > is there a unix like OS written completely in Ada? i don't quite remember where i read C was not intended for coding in the million of line, but it has done some amazing work for something not intended. It seems that Ada was intended to handle such massively large coding efforts. i guess though an OS unix in type maybe done with a 100,000 lines or so. i have wondered with the language features would using produce a secure os, with much less need for security updates. Thanks everyone, it is more than clear Ada can do an OS, from the realtime OS links.