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Re: "Old Ada books are still worthwhile"
Yeah I agree. Rationales are cool, you're right. Though to be honest, the way you program was way too different from what I'm used to in c++, so that's why I didn't stick with it. The gnat compiler is weird, too. I have no idea why they didn't just make it work like normal gcc. The compile times are much better though, because of pascal grammar I presume. Also the one thing I've noticed, is that while strict typing can be nice, it really makes refactoring much more painful than in c. Same applies to rust too actually.
2025-01-10 · 1 year ago
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🐙 norayr [mod] · 2025-01-10 at 06:56:
gnat compilation times are fast? with all due respect to gnat, that's very slow, compared to fpc (freepascal) or any ETH oberon compiler. (:
🐝 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...