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grawprog on Sept 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introduction to Ada

It's always had a strange super elite, if you use ada you must mean serious business kind of vibe to it.

I guess it's mostly the applications its used in, but the language itself has this strict rigidity to it.

It's like the marines or special forces of programming languages or something.

non-entity on Sept 3, 2020 [–]

Outside the unpopular syntax, I've wondered if the goverment / DoD association has scared people away.

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