PinkyThePiggy

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Comment · 10 years ago

As one example, a lot of the libraries referenced in the book have gone through major version changes (1.x to 2.x etc.) that change the functions being exported and/or architecture reworks changing which libraries you need to import which means that if you try to copy + compile a lot of the code snippets, they will not compile. It is generally trivial changes in most cases, but if you are a newbie to the language, it is likely not immediately obvious because you will think you copied from the book wrong (or that the book has a typo) instead of the libraries having been changed.

There is also a lot written about historical quirks you will come across that have since been fixed.

Comment · 10 years ago

Here is an example from Real World Haskell (pretty good intermediate book, although it is a bit dated): http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html#csv

A fully featured CSV parser in 20-30 [depending on how you count] lines of non-golf code.

Comment · 11 years ago

I would say so, especially considering that is where the majority of Ada/Spark is used currently. Space flight, planes, assembly lines, automotive etc.

There is a blog post about rewriting a drones control system in Spark if you were curious: http://blog.adacore.com/how-to-prevent-drone-crashes-using-s...

It does exactly what you were planning. Taking C code and rewriting it in Spark in an embedded environment.