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Worst dev disaster you can imagine?
Week 245 Group Rant
punker1999
39d

The fact my university still teaches ada as a coding language in a required class. That's a real disaster. Also had to use racket in another course. Nothing uses racket.

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  • 6
    39d
    Ada is a mysterious language and not so terrible to learn programming. It has highly paid positions in safety critical software.
  • 3
    39d
    like @aviophile said. Ada is an language made for safety. there is a 300 page document to help C developers write secure code. 300 pages full of hints on how to avoid use-after-free and other errors.
  • 1
    39d
    Ada is not a bad language! Even if I do prefer C++, with all its footguns.

    And racket is great for making new languages and manipulating programs.
  • 0
    34d
    @aviophile Ada use by Rocket launcher right? Or I'm wrong?
  • 1
    34d
    @johnmelodyme afaik many applications in the us-mil sector require Ada programs.
  • 1
    34d
    @johnmelodyme i have seen military aircraft sw components only.
  • 1
    33d
    Ada was used in the Ariane 5 software, the rocket famous for exploding due to (ultimately) an improper numeric conversion.

    But it wasn't Ada's fault :)
  • 0
    33d
    @halfflat it was the fault of engineers that didnt think about that the metric system.
  • 0
    33d
    @stop Ah, no, that was a different disaster! :D
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