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asciilifeform: i suspect that mircea_popescu would actually like ada. not writing it, mind you, but seeing it written ☟︎
asciilifeform: if i could fork myself, i'd be severely tempted to: attempt an ada bitcoind.
asciilifeform: unrelated2: anybody here into Ada?
BingoBoingo: I mean I would take on a county misdemeanor "court supervision" if I were able at the same time to slander the county by motorboating the ADA under court order.
BingoBoingo: Or at least let me motorboat the ADA's tits.
asciilifeform: (for some odd reason, folks ignore the fact that 'symbolics' os happily ran fortran, pascal, ada, and yes, even c - code - on same box, and the proggys could share data structures)
decimation: anything with 'ada' is a 'dtic' research report
decimation: ascii I have bad news. The ones with "ADA" numbers have already been published on the internet by usg: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA096510
asciilifeform: (naggum is known to have worked in ada. hence his familiarity with the matter)
asciilifeform: the result was a mega-backbreaker - like Ada. but it sorta worked.
pankkake: http://www.sabmegastore.com/images/articles/a/ADA-ALIM-SEC-UNI.jpg
bitstein: Did she tell that to Ada Lovelace?
mircea_popescu: "We had great success amongst primary customers. I think we could have found a lot more of them if our marketing had been better. For example, did you know that Symbolics had a world-class software development environment for Fortran, C, Ada, and other popular languages, with amazing semantics-understanding in the editor, a powerful debugger, the ability for the languages to call each other, and so on? We put a lot of
mircea_popescu: honestly i thought ruby is dead like ada. ☟︎