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Down in the "practical use" section, one use case is bypassing copy protection on consoles.

Most aerospace stuff is. The thing is, they have reams of very specific rules about how it's coded, how to verify that code, and how to verify the compiler of that code, and how to…

Thank you!

I actually met a programmer who worked on military jets. According to her, Ada is only used anymore for the older jets that were already programmed in it, and she worked in C++.

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I wouldn't trust USB flash drives with anything long term. Best archival method would be to print something out (perhaps an encrypted message in a QR code), have it put away somewh…

Which also gives away some gaps in the author's knowledge. Perl wasn't following the PCRE standard. It was the PCRE standard. Everything else was following it. Usually with some pi…

It doesn't go the speed of light in copper, either. In fact, that study has a nice table on page 5. Looks like other than thick coax, fiber is a bit faster than most copper options…