EdPF

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by EdPF 6y ago
I have a MacBook Pro running Manjaro Linux, Audiophile Linux and the latest OS-X. There's no issue: there's a command that can toggle the security status. I think the instructions are even in the Apple documentation. Now getting s
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by EdPF 6y ago
Your experience matches mine. And UEFI is more capable if you're interested in a multiboot setup, preserving a recovery partition, and such-like. I've yet to see a UEFI machine where you couldn't shut off secure boot in its f
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by EdPF 6y ago
As someone who worked a couple of decades for a company selling GPL-ed development tools, I was always mystified by a similar case. It was the developers who wanted to develop proprietary software and were upset that they would have to pay
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by EdPF 6y ago
You understand Murphy's law, and other laws of the universe well!
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by EdPF 6y ago
The thing I saw with Pascal in the late 70's / early 80's was that in order to handle industrial use cases, each computer company invented its own dialect (I worked on one at Burroughs). That was one of the problems Ada addre
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by EdPF 6y ago
Whoops, forgot. The borrow checking memory management is available on GNAT Community Edition 2020, for SPARK and (I believe) also Ada itself. The GNAT Ada compiler is used to compile and build SPARK apps. Since SPARK is very strict, the imp
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by EdPF 6y ago
There's a telegram group https://t.me/ada_lang you could open that question on. Also, there's work (I think on GitLab) on a package manager called Alire. And the very old standby comp.lang.ada which tends to have
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by EdPF 6y ago
A little exaggerated. From the 90's there were a couple (Janus, Meridian) at about $600 a seat.
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by EdPF 6y ago
Certainly matches my experience. Panopticon at work.
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by EdPF 6y ago
This question almost always needs further qualification, to determine what the goal is. Learning to program is different from preparing for a new career. You get the drift. That said, for "pure" learning to program, I like the DrR
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by EdPF 6y ago
That difference may be due to ";" being considered a statement separator in Pascal, and a statement terminator in Ada. https://wiki.haskell.org/Terminator_vs._separator
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by EdPF 6y ago
More specifically, "readability" was the sub-goal that fell under. People were thinking about use as pseudo-code in those days as well.
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by EdPF 6y ago
PTC, Green Hills, R&R, DDC-I. That's all I can think of at the moment.
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by EdPF 6y ago
Here's a 1/2 hour webcast on the interaction of programming language and software lifecycle costs. Not too old. https://www.vdcresearch.com/_documents/briefs/IoT/18-Control... Here's extensive