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Giving Ada a Chance

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Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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A nitpick, but why is Ada in all caps in the title? It isn't in the article, nor is the name an acronym.

There's no real reason for it to annoy me so much, but I was just thinking about how I can't stand when people seemingly randomly capitalize words relating to technology without the intention of drawing emphasis to them: GIT, NODE, JIRA, JAVA... why??

In the case of Jira, it was in the past officially stylised by Atlassian as JIRA.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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Thought this was talking about blockchain tech, Cardano (Token $ADA) which I'm having a hard time giving a chance. Was hoping something could change my mind

Why are you having a hard time giving it a chance? Maybe wait until it (Gougen) launches and make up your mind then?

They still don't have a smart contract platform launched on the mainnet afaik. The only reason to use it in my mind is as an alternative to Ethereum, NEO, EOS, etc in the smart contract space. Every year that goes by where it does not have it's core competitive feature in a production-ready state is a nail in the coffin from my perspective.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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post #22

A nitpick, but why is Ada in all caps in the title? It isn't in the article, nor is the name an acronym.

Yes, the language is named after Ada Lovelace - a person credited with writing one of the first computer programs. It is not an acronym.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you having a hard time giving it a chance? Maybe wait until it (Gougen) launches and make up your mind then?

They still don't have a smart contract platform launched on the mainnet afaik. The only reason to use it in my mind is as an alternative to Ethereum, NEO, EOS, etc in the smart contract space. Every year that goes by where it does not have it's core competitive feature in a production-ready state is a nail in the coffin from my perspective.

>They still don't have a smart contract platform launched on the mainnet afaik.

Yes, and that's why I am suggesting to wait ~a month until it is deployed as per the road map before taking a hard stance.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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I tend to like Ada, but it is a tiring language to read with the all caps. Also, it 'feels' like it has a gatekeeper group and really doesn't come up in any mobile conversation. I still believe someone will do something akin to a syntax substitution and come up with a well liked language. Also, modern Fortran is not that bad of a language much like the modern parts of C++.

> [...] tiring with the all caps.

I guess there is more to like then, since the keywords are case insensitive. The OP doesn’t even use all caps.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still don't have a smart contract platform launched on the mainnet afaik. The only reason to use it in my mind is as an alternative to Ethereum, NEO, EOS, etc in the smart contract space. Every year that goes by where it does not have it's core competitive feature in a production-ready state is a nail in the coffin from my perspective.

>They still don't have a smart contract platform launched on the mainnet afaik. Yes, and that's why I am suggesting to wait ~a month until it is deployed as per the road map before taking a hard stance.

I've been watching for awhile. The road map said it was going to be out in ~a month, a year or two ago. Excuse my skepticism, but I feel like I've been following the eternally shifting roadmap long enough to warrant it. I like Haskell, I flipped through their Plutus example code, I want to use the product! They should just ship what they have.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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I tend to like Ada, but it is a tiring language to read with the all caps. Also, it 'feels' like it has a gatekeeper group and really doesn't come up in any mobile conversation. I still believe someone will do something akin to a syntax substitution and come up with a well liked language. Also, modern Fortran is not that bad of a language much like the modern parts of C++.

> [...] tiring with the all caps. I guess there is more to like then, since the keywords are case insensitive. The OP doesn’t even use all caps.

Odd, that was what I was told by our Ada teacher, and the book has all caps.

Re: Giving Ada a Chance

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> The writing is on the wall: Ada is here to stay.

OK, this has no relation to the actual content of the article, but I have to point out that that is not what the phrase "the writing is on the wall" means.

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