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I find this somewhat amusing as Ada occupies the same space that Rust is in. At first glance I find Ada vastly more approachable than Rust, which to me feels li
by a2800276 5y ago
I find this somewhat amusing as Ada occupies the same space that Rust is in. At first glance I find Ada vastly more approachable than Rust, which to me feels like line-noise language/Perl. Or even C++ tbh.
But I can relate that Ada feels like you should be writing it one a flickering green terminal in ALL CAPS and debugged with a daisy wheel printer.
- zozbot234 5y ago> But I can relate that Ada feels like you should be writing it one a flickering green terminal in ALL CAPS and debugged with a daisy wheel printer. In a way, the reason for such a limited character set and clunky syntax (including, e.g. case insensitivity) was precisely to maintain backward compatibility with those earlier machines.
- pjmlp 5y agoOr a Ada Machine, that is how Rational was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400 http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400 Think Lisp Machine experience, with Ada instead.