zmower

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   by zmower 2y ago

   Already done here https://github.com/simonjwright/building-gcc-macos-native Simon's the man when it comes to GNAT on macOS.
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   by zmower 3y ago

   Ah, cancelling Virgin Media. I've done this recently. I got upset. I shouted down the phone at them. I'm not surprised they're being invetigated by OFCOM https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ju
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   by zmower 5y ago

   An ISO stick. Looks like a DVD player to the OS but loads ISO images off a micro SD card. So I have lots of images in a USB stick form factor that are read much faster than a real DVD drive does.
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   by zmower 5y ago

   I'm confused when people don't use it for bigger systems. I like that the compiler detects most of my errors before I run the program.
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   by zmower 5y ago

   Well, we do have a good set of generic containers now. Access types and Unchecked_Conversion have always been a code-smell IMO. And Ada is still foremost a realtime language so garbage collection just creates scheduling problems.
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   by zmower 6y ago

   "We have not performed a detailed comparison against the original version of elPrep implemented in Common Lisp, but based on previous performance benchmarks, the Go implementation seems to perform close to the Common Lisp implementatio
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   by zmower 11y ago

   Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a b