Re:The F-35’s Software Is So Buggy It Might Ground the Whole...
by acomjean on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @04:57PM
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Its been a while
I liked the records in ada. You could control the position and size of each field (which was really usefully for dealing with in binary messages) We had a ton of constrained types.
If I remember we has assert 'size on some of the records to make sure type changes didn't cause some records to become unexpected sized in case the types that made up the record changed.
variant records were fun, but when you start trying to do much (array of variant records?) it fell down.
The string handling left a little to be desired though..
I liked the records in ada. You could control the position and size of each field (which was really usefully for dealing with in binary messages) We had a ton of constrained types.
If I remember we has assert 'size on some of the records to make sure type changes didn't cause some records to become unexpected sized in case the types that made up the record changed.
variant records were fun, but when you start trying to do much (array of variant records?) it fell down.
The string handling left a little to be desired though..