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by pyjarrett 4y ago
The language writes with a straightforward conceptual simplicity people like from C, while giving you a decent standard library, easy binding to C, typed pointers, native executables with no garbage collector, and built-in concurrency types
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by pyjarrett 4y ago
Ada is another option without a GC. I wrote a search tool for large codebases with it ( https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum ), and the easy and built-in tasking and pinning to CPUs allows you to easily go wide if the pr
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by pyjarrett 4y ago
I'm a super introvert who works remote. I don't want the company to spend a bunch of money on a ski trip for the company, I want to see my portion of that money in my pocket so I can do what I enjoy. Working from home means my em
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
> There is no circumstance where dumping debug tracebacks down a control channel not prepared for that is ever correct. Period. Anyone suggesting otherwise is displaying their blinders. We agree here. Did you read the report? > The e
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
It wasn't a flaw in Ariane 4 because it used a very different rocket flight path. This means the BH value which caused the error was physically impossible. > The value of BH was much higher than expected because the early part of t
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I don't agree with your point. Leaving in debug code, especially for an entire part of the launch that doesn't exist anymore by bringing in reused and untested code, seems like the real problem. I'm pretty sure integer overf
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
This was the first attempted flight of Ariane 5, which has ended up becoming one of the most reliable launch vehicles of all time. Also, according to NASA, because of its reliability , the Ariane 5 was used to launch the James Webb Space
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I normally work in C++, but I've also written in lots of other languages. I wrote an article for these folks which includes some of the rationale here: https://blog.adacore.com/ada-crate-of-the-year-interactive-c...
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
This is Windows/Linux only (I didn't have a Mac at the time). You can use Alire ( https://alire.ada.dev ) will install your toolchain as well as build an executable.
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I work on code bases with millions of lines, so I wrote a tool called Septum to help me ( https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum/ ). This isn't to replace grep or ripgrep or silver searcher, those are all great t
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I've been using Fossil as my own personal knowledge repository for a few months, and it's been wildly successful. It's pretty much Gitea in a single SQLite file (Wiki, tickets, version control, etc.). It's weird, but yo
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
It's being built up a bit at a time and some of the older more mature libraries have been or are being put into it.
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I hate timed coding exams. The "Here's a thing to write, send it to us in a week, it should take a few hours to do" sort of thing seems reasonable. As an interviewer, I do a code review of that (or of GitHub code if there&#x
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I keep a lot of notebooks of general problems I run into and ways I think problems can be solved. I sketch out a bunch of ideas in a notebook and let it sit. I might do some research to see if it's been done before, and if so how, an
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
Ada relied on colleges teaching it or Pascal, so then it became hard to hire. I understand the rationale behind this, but the language is surprisingly easy to learn because it's usually explicit and straightforward. It suffered from t
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I removed my comment since it wasn't being constructive here, and I realized it was off-topic for this post. I'll leave with this: I'm a super introvert who works from home, so I took my difficulties as possibly me needing to
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I do work in software performance. The people I know who don't use exceptions work at HFT firms and in games, but in general, my point is that there's two reasons for not using exceptions: 1. performance 2. not wanting jumps or h
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
A lot of C++ developers outside of games don't use exceptions. It introduces a latent and hidden goto up the call chain in your code, and require additional bookkeeping by the program which slows things down. They're also danger
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
Ada exceptions are fundamentally different from C++ since they only carry type data with a possible message and no other user-defined data. Old school C++ used to have additional try/catch blocks (and performance hit) inserted to ensur
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
> I've often wondered how Americans see the world. Many are mesmerized by it and lots want to travel, but are prohibited due to costs or time from doing so. Other countries are seen as exotic, my wife can probably name a dozen fash
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
I use pair programming from time to time when there's a subject matter expert who can provide assistance or clarification on something. However, I'm a super introvert and pair programming is absolutely exhausting for me. The noti
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
A good description, and this is described in the video that all of these comments are about. :P
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
The isn't talking about that sort of "interface" (which Ada also has). This refers to a difference in logical and physical program structure in which specifications are separate from bodies--formalized version of the header&#
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
> simple changes having quite a large spread through the codebase due to the strong typing The opposite is true in my experience and refactors are usually well bounded. The "killer feature" of Ada is that types are not modules
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
> have poor developer experiences and they never bothered to improve and add more syntactic sugar Ada actually did in Ada 2012 and moreso in Ada 202x. - Expression functions, and expression forms of if/else and case statements - mor
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
Attributes tripped me up as well, which is why I talked about them in the presentation. The language server provides completions for them, which helps significantly.
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
Fantastic! You should be very proud. Took a while to get used to it, but I was very satisfied to clear a few lines. I was curious what effect it would have to change or add to the concept of "row" to be not horizontal, but instea
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
See https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/clearing-th...
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by pyjarrett 5y ago
No, it won't help you better understand Python. However, for professional development, you should probably learn it anyways before you jump into other lower level languages. C is the Latin of programming languages, as it's the com

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