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Isn't that madness?

• Toenex 6y ago
  Rewriting in Ada means it will be easier for NASA to approve for use on a Mars colony. /joke
  • logicchains 6y ago
    In a few decades, maybe there'll be people saying "our teleporters wouldn't have accidentally opened portals to hell if their software had been written in Rust/Ada".
    • MaxBarraclough 6y ago
      It's been said that C's undefined behaviour is permitted, in principle, to cause demons to fly from one's nose. [0] I guess the nose part is all they got wrong. [0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
• MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Madness in terms of the effort involved for the payoff, perhaps, but Ada doesn't seem like a terrible choice of language for a game engine. John Carmack once said he'd use Ada for game engine code if only it were easier to hire game programmers who knew the language. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=976 https://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=976