Re:Ada Outperforms Assembly: A Case Study
by hedgie on Saturday May 28, 2011 @08:49PM
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No Ada at my (big ten) school but I work coding Ada at my current job.
The language is amazing. Most of my errors are related to copy-paste oversights (Message_1 instead of Message_2). The typing is very elegant.
Also, Java stole Ada's way of handling exceptions. Instead of try catch you have begin/exception.
It's a shame so few people use Ada. They recently converted GNAT (a free Ada compiler and a very good one) to work with lego mindstorms. It's still big in safety critical areas (transport systems - the trains in europe run ada and lots of avionics code is in ada, the medical field and if I hear correctly banks sometimes use it as well).
It takes longer to get it to compile but having no array indexing errors is so worth it.
The language is amazing. Most of my errors are related to copy-paste oversights (Message_1 instead of Message_2). The typing is very elegant.
Also, Java stole Ada's way of handling exceptions. Instead of try catch you have begin/exception.
It's a shame so few people use Ada. They recently converted GNAT (a free Ada compiler and a very good one) to work with lego mindstorms. It's still big in safety critical areas (transport systems - the trains in europe run ada and lots of avionics code is in ada, the medical field and if I hear correctly banks sometimes use it as well).
It takes longer to get it to compile but having no array indexing errors is so worth it.