Notices tagged with ada
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/style/invisible-disabilities.html [www nytimes com]
The #ADA ( Americans with Disabilities Act ) is turning 30. This article discusses the experiences of those whose disabilities are not obvious to others. (Forwarded by one of my brothers.)
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Paul Graham (2001): Why a programming language becomes popular or not. http://url.federati.net/ixI04 #Perl !Python #Lisp #Arc #Java #Pascal #Ada
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I once took over a C project from someone who had ♯define'd words like "BEGIN", "THEN", and "END" to use instead of various parens—like she was a medieval theologian, asserting control by naming things. I gathered that she was an #Ada or somesuch programmer who thought she was `making C have less parens'. It's usually C programmers who make the `Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses' crack, though—isn't it?