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Off-topic: How you english speakers pronounce 'Ada'? Like [a]ffirmative or {a}pex? '[A]da Lovelace' sounds so nice and soothing to me. It's a really beautiful
by lofi_lory 5y ago
Off-topic: How you english speakers pronounce 'Ada'? Like [a]ffirmative or {a}pex?
'[A]da Lovelace' sounds so nice and soothing to me. It's a really beautiful name. However, just 'Ada' doesn't do anything for me, but 'Julia' does the trick there. A programmer named Ada Lovelace and a programming language named Julia... those things make for really comforting echos in my mind, I don't know why. Like coming home chilled from winter's rainfall and bathing the brain in warm vanilla sauce.
- throwaway81523 5y agoI've always heard Ada pronounced like in Apex. I like the language and find many of the complaints about it to be misplaced. I haven't tried Julia but I think its application area is completely different. I would say Ada isn't a great choice for this Lovelace project. Maybe the project should have been called Robinson instead of Lovelace, after the mathematician Julia Robinson (the R in the MRDP theorem, among other things). Then the examples could have been programmed in Julia. Or maybe even in R ;-).