zmower

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Software wrestler. Likes Ada.

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Comment · 1 year ago

Already done here https://github.com/simonjwright/building-gcc-macos-native Simon's the man when it comes to GNAT on macOS.

Comment · 3 years ago

Ah, cancelling Virgin Media. I've done this recently. I got upset. I shouted down the phone at them. I'm not surprised they're being invetigated by OFCOM https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/13/ofcom-investig...

Comment · 4 years ago

An ISO stick. Looks like a DVD player to the OS but loads ISO images off a micro SD card. So I have lots of images in a USB stick form factor that are read much faster than a real DVD drive does.

Comment · 5 years ago

I'm confused when people don't use it for bigger systems. I like that the compiler detects most of my errors before I run the program.

Comment · 5 years ago

Well, we do have a good set of generic containers now. Access types and Unchecked_Conversion have always been a code-smell IMO. And Ada is still foremost a realtime language so garbage collection just creates scheduling problems.

Comment · 6 years ago

"We have not performed a detailed comparison against the original version of elPrep implemented in Common Lisp, but based on previous performance benchmarks, the Go implementation seems to perform close to the Common Lisp implementation." LMFAO.

Comment · 11 years ago

Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.