An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers

[@AleksyGrabovski]

I'm totally sold, actually I found this video while researching Ada language.

[@eugenesorokin6602]

year 2024, but yep... my resons are the same :)

[@Christobanistan]

I believe Ada was the result of a U.S. Military contest to design a mission critical language, which is why it's used in all their critical systems. I learned it in 1994 in college, but it was replaced my very second semester by C++. Its syntax seems excessively rigid, but I'd love to see a language that works as well with a more concise non-C based syntax. What I don't really remember is how it handles memory management.

[@rjmaas]

I wrote a few small programs in Rust. And when compiler blesses the code it usually runs without any error. I guess Ada is similar in that regard

[@964tractorboy]

The language specification exceeded the time allotted, which is a shame.

[@bobweiram6321]

The French really think hard about a problem, but by the time they have an answer, it doesn't matter anymore. Many of the type safety features of ADA are now implemented in modern languages such as Swift, C# and even modern C++.

[@Christobanistan]

It's an American language, came out of a U.S. military contract to design a language to be used by all mission critical government systems.

[@bobweiram6321]

@@Christobanistan It was designed by Honeywell Bull Information systems in France by Jean Ichbian, a French computer scientist.

[@Christobanistan]

@@bobweiram6321 Oh, that's right, they won the contract. I think it was a contest between them and two others. Been a quarter century, forgive me.

[@wiskasIO]

I was expecting he would start hitting everyone with a baguette at the end. 🤣

[@पापानटोले]

Why is he so angry?

[@barzontus]

he's french

[@xaxfixho]

Explains the protests and revolution 😅 The revolution is always 360 degrees 😂

[@rajbhandari9605]

why are you jealous?

[@Christobanistan]

His French accent is so strong it sounds like that guy doing Vista support on The IT Crowd! 🤣🤣

[@cabc74]

Never send an angry man to convince someone to use something.

[@bobweiram6321]

Anger is a way of expressing passion! He could as easily be jumping up and down with excitement describing its advantages, but it's so common among language advocates, it becomes nauseating and insincere. At least two watchers, me and another commenter have been swayed.