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Well that was disappointing. I was hoping to see a discussion about writing a zip encoder in Ada. How the language was used, values of the language for this kin
by whartung 1y ago
Well that was disappointing. I was hoping to see a discussion about writing a zip encoder in Ada. How the language was used, values of the language for this kind of work. How it’s easier or harder to do. Maybe a bunch of Ada source code.
Simply as one who does not use Ada I had hoped to be a bit more informed about it.
- andsoitis 1y agoBottom of page links to the sources: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada
- etrez 1y agoThanks for the feedback. Multiple posts are planned on that topic. For parts 1 and 2 (so far the only ones existing) I preferred explaining the context and the remarkable simplicity of the BZip2 format. In part #4, I will try to show why the customisable types in Ada fit so well compression software. Be patient: writing articles about writing software takes much more time than writing the software itself! In the meantime, there is a short preview of that in recent presentations - notably FOSDEM 2025: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5148-advent-of-compression-writing-a-working-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from-scratch-in-a-few-days/ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5148-adve... , last slide.