Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Mar 2009 00:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris Ever wanted a simple, compact, small, yet usable and relatively full-featured operating system using a SunOS kernel with most of its utilities written in Ada? Whatever the answer, now you can. "AuroraUX is a SunOS-derived kernel and userland. The core of the project are its utilities written in Ada. Other, poorly implemented features have been fixed or rewritten, too. Ada was chosen over other languages because it sucks the least." At least they're honest.
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Dynamic class loading?
by panzi on Thu 12th Mar 2009 15:06 UTC
panzi
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2006-01-22

Is dynamic class/module loading or something similar possible with Ada? Somehow the Typesystem doesn't look like it: You can get a list of all the subclasses of a class. How is this possible if you don't actually know all subclasses because they could be loaded from a file? Or are only the currently loaded classes listed?

Re: Dynamic class loading?
by sparre on Fri 13th Mar 2009 09:35 in reply to "Dynamic class loading?"
sparre Member since:
2009-03-13

I am almost certain it is possible to implement dynamic class loading in Ada, although I've never gotten around to demonstrate it myself.

The fact that there exists Ada compilers targeting JVM and .NET platforms seems to support my view.

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