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We used Ada in my software engineering class in 1992 to try to build a system to do route finding on a map and then generate directions. Each build took 40 to
by dugmartin 12y ago
We used Ada in my software engineering class in 1992 to try to build a system to do route finding on a map and then generate directions. Each build took 40 to 50 minutes on a pretty nice PC at the time. I don't miss those days.
- tormeh 12y agoWrong tool for the job. I would do that in Python.
- iak8god 12y agoNot in 1992 you wouldn't. This is a strange thing to say without explaining anyway. Would you care to expand on your point? I would expect Ada to run orders of magnitude faster than Python for a task like this.
- tormeh 12y agoI think that when you are doing exploratory programming and you're not quite sure about what you're doing you should have a language that gets out of the way as much as possible, which Python does. Ada and other bondage languages are for when correctness is most important or you need structure because you know the codebase will become large.
- iak8god 12y ago> I think that when you are doing exploratory programming and you're not quite sure about what you're doing you should have a language that gets out of the way as much as possible, which Python does. I agree with this, but am not sure it's on point. Every software engineering class I've heard of is about as far as you can get from exploratory programming.