[Info-vax] ADA and VMS (was Safer programming languages)

Robert A. Brooks FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com
Mon Nov 15 16:18:13 EST 2021


On 11/15/2021 4:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> This talk of Ada, VMS and Systems programming has raised a new
> question in my mind.
> 
> Given that Ada got it's start on VMS (one of the first validated
> Ada Compilers was on VMS) has any attempt ever been made to write
> any part of VMS using Ada?  Device Driver? Anything?

ACME_SERVER and SECURITY_SERVER are written in ADA.

Both are being rewritten in C.

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                       -- Rob



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