Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language

Post by gamegoblin » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

baldgeek wrote: post #5

circlefavshape wrote: post #3

I used Ada on my first coding job - test scripts for Airbus engines back in the mid-90s. Nice to see they're still using Ada, though tbh I don't remember a single thing about the language except for you can't dynamically create objects

Ada used to be basis for CS Curriculm at Cal Poly Pomona (Circa '92- '98). Ada teaches good practice. One prominent feature is that there is no implicit casting; Add a float and int, you get a compile error. It's good to know that you have to do exactly what you want and the compiler enforces this.

    Prelude> let a = 1 :: Int
    Prelude> let b = 2 :: Integer
    Prelude> a+b

    :4:3:
        Couldn't match expected type `Int' with actual type `Integer'
        In the second argument of `(+)', namely `b'
        In the expression: a + b
        In an equation for `it': it = a + b

Post by JasonFruit » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:44 PM UTC

henderson101 wrote: post #11

baldgeek wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ada used to be basis for CS Curriculm at Cal Poly Pomona (Circa '92- '98). Ada teaches good practice. One prominent feature is that there is no implicit casting; Add a float and int, you get a compile error. It's good to know that you have to do exactly what you want and the compiler enforces this.

ADA at university - never touched it again. It was ADA 83, and the ADA 95 object extensions looked horrible. I remember seeing PL/SQL circa Oracle 8i and it looking a lot like ADA.

Post by maxlybbert » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

baldgeek wrote: post #5

circlefavshape wrote: post #3

I used Ada on my first coding job - test scripts for Airbus engines back in the mid-90s. Nice to see they're still using Ada, though tbh I don't remember a single thing about the language except for you can't dynamically create objects

Ada used to be basis for CS Curriculm at Cal Poly Pomona (Circa '92- '98). Ada teaches good practice. One prominent feature is that there is no implicit casting; Add a float and int, you get a compile error. It's good to know that you have to do exactly what you want and the compiler enforces this.

Post by nraynaud » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

thejteam wrote: post #7

Although I've never coded in Ada I have had to read existing code to figure out what it was doing. Ada struck me as a language that would be a pain to write in(at least it would take a long time) but it was a pleasure to read. Even without an intimate knowledge of the language (I was a C++ guy) I was able to figure it out.

Post by foogered » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC