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During weekend installfest/hackfest events at a LUG that I used to attend, there was always this one guy who would sit in front of a pair of laptops and code in
by octorian 7y ago
During weekend installfest/hackfest events at a LUG that I used to attend, there was always this one guy who would sit in front of a pair of laptops and code in Ada.
One thing I remember about it is just how much it reminded me of Pascal.
- MisterTea 7y agoAda was built on top of Pascal so they are very similar. Another Pascal language is ST or Structured Text, an IEC industrial automation language specification for PLC's. I remember fooling with Ada years ago and I really liked the concurrency and ipc mechanisms which was quite unique in the 00's. It was a little more friendly to use vs. pthreads. Now every new language is baking in concurrency. Since I wrote mostly c code I wound up making a franken program which was a statically linked Ada/c. I used Ada for its concurrency which called my linked in c code. It was a PLC emulator I scrapped.