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Re:Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:07PM (#42732076)
Already done here https://github.com/simonjwright/building-gcc-macos-native
Simon's the man when it comes to GNAT on macOS.
Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one week of empa...
on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:47PM (#36933125)
Ah, cancelling Virgin Media. I've done this recently. I got upset. I shouted down the phone at them. I'm not surprised they're being invetigated by OFCOM https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/13/ofcom-investig...
Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than yo...
on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:40PM (#30234809)
An ISO stick. Looks like a DVD player to the OS but loads ISO images off a micro SD card. So I have lots of images in a USB stick form factor that are read much faster than a real DVD drive does.
Re:Summary After Four Months with Ada
on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:18PM (#28349119)
I'm confused when people don't use it for bigger systems. I like that the compiler detects most of my errors before I run the program.
Re:Summary After Four Months with Ada
on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:02AM (#28346354)
Well, we do have a good set of generic containers now. Access types and Unchecked_Conversion have always been a code-smell IMO. And Ada is still foremost a realtime language so garbage collection just creates scheduling problems.
Re:Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation sequencing ...
on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:44PM (#22960287)
"We have not performed a detailed comparison against the original version of elPrep implemented in Common Lisp, but based on previous performance benchmarks, the Go implementation seems to perform close to the Common Lisp implementation." LMFAO.
Re:Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
on Thursday April 09, 2015 @03:49PM (#9350516)
Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting.
Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.