How many of you noticed today’s doodle?
Yup…
Sure, but have you ever programmed in Ada? It’s fussily verbose but very safe. (Some might be tempted to say it’s fitting that such a language should be named after a woman.)
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Never used it, but from a quick look the syntax is pleasantly uncryptic and Englishlike. Who uses it? Seem to recall banking for some reason.
I was given to understand that it’s used mainly in military and related applications (e.g., by NASA and in airline control systems) where any bugs could be costly or even disastrous. Apparently, MilSpec requires that the programmer justify each and every line of code with a comment, and, as you indicate, Ada is somewhat self-documenting. I used the language for a short while in the development and implementation of numerical simulators for scientific/engineering applications before taking the natural step to Pascal and beyond.
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