Ada++ Wants To Make The Ada Programming Language More Accessible

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ada++ Wants To Make The Ada Programming Language More Accessible

Ada is a beautiful programming language when it comes to code safety with it continuing to be used by aircraft and other safety critical systems. There is now Ada++ as an unofficial fork of the language focused on making the language more accessible and friendlier in an era of the likes of Rust and Golang attracting much interest...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ada-Plus-Plus-Language

[pkunk]

++ operator in safety critical language. Seriously?

[wizard69]

It is too bad that ADA never really caught on outside of the aircraft and missile industries. So much potential that has gone unused for years now, frankly I don't see ADA++ helping any.

[edwaleni]

A friend of mine who worked on the "Star Wars" project called Ada "the perfect language for government bureaucracies". I wasn't sure how to translate that, but I took him at his word.

[cjcox]

Ada, real time input type checking. Before we determined that sucks.

[bug77]

I like how they went Int_32, Int_64 and so on, but I think Rust really nailed that with i32/u32, i64/u64... (I'm not aware whether other language did that before Rust, if they did, hats off.)

[jaypatelani]

Finally

[zxy_thf]

I like how they went Int_32, Int_64 and so on, but I think Rust really nailed that with i32/u32, i64/u64... (I'm not aware whether other language did that before Rust, if they did, hats off.)

C99 has int32_t uin32_t int64_t etc.

[saulo]

Nowadays with covid-19.... is very interesting to see what people want to do when they need to stay home for weeks.

[andreano]

I like how they went Int_32, Int_64 and so on, but I think Rust really nailed that with i32/u32, i64/u64... (I'm not aware whether other language did that before Rust, if they did, hats off.)

I bet Rust was inspired by kernel typedefs like u32 and s32.

https://kernelnewbies.org/InternalKernelDataTypes