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by etrez 19d ago
The absence of {$IFDEF} is one of the best features of Ada (from a long time Pascal (and its multitude of dialects) programmer.
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by etrez 4mo ago
Cool project! Now, Zip-Ada's ReZip does much better, even if you stick with the Deflate compression scheme. For Zip archives, you have more compression schemes available (BZip2, LZMA, ...) and even much better results.
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 4(gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
5 points by etrez 11mo ago|0 comments
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Savonarazze – All_RGB in Ada(gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by etrez 11mo ago|0 comments
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by etrez 1y ago
You have Alire crates for generating Excel and PDF streams/files. Of course you want everything else ;-).
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by etrez 1y ago
The "Ada" topic is (only) for the last part. It precisely because with such a good tool, you focus on the important things: the algorithms. Precisely, there is no such a thing as the BZip2 algorithm: there are multiple ways of p
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3(gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
97 points by etrez 1y ago|9 comments
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by etrez 1y ago
It is a combination of different things: - the Alire crate system - Nvidia's own usage of Ada - lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years - the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada
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by etrez 1y ago
Unfortunately the author of the TIOBE index has obeyed too quickly to what Mr Herrera told him. The hits about that "Ada Lovelace architecture" are a negligible part of the hits you get with: +"Ada programming" +"nv
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by etrez 1y ago
Thx, corrected.
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by etrez 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Multiple posts are planned on that topic. For parts 1 and 2 (so far the only ones existing) I preferred explaining the context and the remarkable simplicity of the BZip2 format. In part #4, I will try to show why th
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by etrez 1y ago
The data in question cannot be compressed to zero, or close to zero, by far.
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days (2024)(gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
110 points by etrez 1y ago|68 comments
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by etrez 1y ago
Interesting letter! His concerns were legitimate regarding complexity, but most of the items in his list of features are indispensable. Basically Ada 83 was a pre-version lacking key features for practical use, although it had already cool
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by etrez 1y ago
There is also an Ada 2022 standard.
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by etrez 2y ago
* Splitting large enumerated types into smaller ones * Using the same range for arrays indexes, "for" loops parameters which index those arrays. In those cases a good compiler removes the useless run-time checks! Ada range types