Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Old Ada books are still worthwhile"
gnat compilation times are fast? with all due respect to gnat, that's very slow, compared to fpc (freepascal) or any ETH oberon compiler. (:
2025-01-10 · 1 year ago
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🐝 undefined · 2025-01-10 at 08:40:
@norayr no, compared to c++ or any llvm language really
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Old Ada books are still worthwhile — I had a class on Ada back in college, in the late 80s. The professor didn't really know much about Ada, certainly didn't understand the rationale of the language, so it was a fairly shallow introduction, and didn't really answer the question of WHY someone would pick Ada to use over other languages. So the general impression was of a fairly verbose language with very strict typing. (Note that I live in a very rural area and didn't have access to good...