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The power structures will never allow it. The conditions for a society of leisure have theoretically existed for some time now. We will simply end up with a a planetary ruling clas…

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Working HD Active Protection System for newer Thinkpads - DESCRIPTION: Around the time of the release of the Thinkpad W530, Lenovo had changed …

Ada had OO from Ada 95, though it doesn't look anything like the OO in most mainstream languages of today. In Ada 95, tagged types were introduced which were based on Ada's powerfu…

T'was programming language satire at it's finest, in my opinion. :)

During a presentation, I tried to show a ranged type implementation in Java. To put it mildly: it's a mess.

There is at least one error in your "About Ada" section. The language was not designed by the Department of Defense, though it did meet specifications laid out by DoD called the St…

These articles give the worst impression of Ada possible. It's not the it's a specialized language for the military, but a language created to cleanup the DoD's software nightmare …

SEEKING WORK/FREELANCER - Omaha area or remote Looking for PART-TIME contract or salaried work. I've been working on a development team for several years as a contract worker. I'm …

SEEKING WORK - Remote from Omaha, Nebraska, USA I creating reliable software by using safe languages as much I can with high test coverage and excellent documentation. A current pr…

I am an Ada developer, but I think it is objective to say that anyone who opposes a language because there fingers will have extra work probably doesn't belong in this field. If yo…

I use Ada everyday developing a predictive dialer and contact management system for call centers and it's web-based front-end. Interest has been steadily growing since I started wi…

AdaCore, who are the chief stewards of the official GCC Ada frontend, GNAT, have been publishing weekly "gems" that are extremely informative for years. http://www.adacore.com/adaa…

Ada is quite a long way from COBOL. Having just completed its latest revision about a year and a half ago, Ada is very much cutting edge. Ada 2012 is hardly a maintenance revision …

I just wrote a letter to the FCC about the open internet and I hope you will do the same. Email openinternet@fcc.gov My letter: Dear FCC - The vote tomorrow must make the internet …

We're working on municipal fiber optic internet in Omaha and this is fantastic ammunition for a project like ours.

Language was also less ambiguous because they didn't leave out important punctuation or relative pronouns. I expected Tolkien to be a on Hitler's side because I interpreted the tit…

I am a freelance Ada developer who is currently working on a contact management system for call centers for a small company. It's the usual array of DB access, webserver and AJAX/w…

I haven't spent any time looking at Go because I'm pretty satisfied with Ada, but these libs do smell a bit like the Ada time handling functions which only get better through each …

To the contrary, labels and breaks are the better design because they are far clearer than testing for termination in each outer loop. Get more than two loops deep and your problem…

Nope, it's just a redirect to Google with your query filled in for the appropriate query string argument. If you want to use Google privately, use Start Page ( http://startpage.com…

Perhaps map key codes to object properties with, you know, real names so comparisons to e.keyCode mean something in the future. var appKeys = { "Esc": 27 }; else if (e.keyCode === …

I'm displeased with the association that open means unapproachable by all but the chosen, but the project is indeed worthwhile and maybe, just maybe, it can be honed to a level tha…