Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS)

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Ehud Lamm wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a rough outline for a memo titled "Why should hackers love Ada."
> Beacuse of lack of time, it is yet to be finished. If someone wants to
> cooperate - let me konw
> 
In some ways, you'd think "hackers" should be fascinated with Ada. It
provides all sorts of facilities to do bit-twiddling and low level
access to the hardware. Tasks seem to provide ample opportunity for
playing with sophisticated OS or OS-like features. The control of the
representation of data down to bits, endianness, etc. ought to appeal to
people who like to get control of the bare machine.

But I suppose those who would hang the moniker "hacker" upon themselves
really want assembly language - only without the inconvenience of having
to learn a new one every time new hardware comes out. Hence the
popularity of things like C with hackers.

MDC
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