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Ada is a language that deserves more love.

• agumonkey 12y ago
  Beside being intimidating and having few syntax curiosity (' as string index operator) it really is a nice language.
  • _kst_ 12y ago
    Hmm? Ada uses the apostrophe for character literals and to introduce attributes. Strings are arrays; indexing uses the same `array[index]` syntax as any other array. S: constant String := "Hello"; H: constant Character := S(1);
    • agumonkey 12y ago
      True, I was thinking about type conversion from String to Character, IIRC you have to use ' operator, something like my_string'first (not sure, I needed it 10 years ago), otherwise my_string(1) gives a String of length one, not the first Character.
      • attackcrow 12y ago
        Depends on how the array is defined. Ada allows you to have any discrete type as your array indices, so to get the first element of an array, you need to use my_string(my_string'first).
• marxama 12y ago
  I got to use it a bit in a Real-Time Systems course I took recently. I wasn't too excited about it starting out, it didn't initially feel like much more than a different C. As I've been spending some time with Clojure's core.async, I was really pleasantly surprised when I came to realize that it offered a really nice CSP implementation! Didn't go much further than that, but seems like a nice language that I wouldn't mind using more.