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Re: "Old Ada books are still worthwhile"
Yeah, I've recently tried the language for the first time, out of sheer curiocity, and was surprised how solid it felt. Most criticism of it doesn't seem justified at all. Though it really is very verbose, it's the only language that made me install vim snippets, typing out procedure xyz ... end xyz is just ridiculous. The contract programming to me was by far the coolest thing about it though. Having whatever assertions you want be built into types and functions is very convenient.
Nov 30 · 3 weeks ago
Old Ada books are still worthwhile — I had a class on Ada back in college, in the late 80s. The professor didn't really know much about Ada, certainly didn't understand the rationale of the language, so it was a fairly shallow introduction, and didn't really answer the question of WHY someone would pick Ada to use over other languages. So the general impression was of a fairly verbose language with very strict typing. (Note that I live in a very rural area and didn't have access to good...