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Dialogic (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Ada Lovelace Host: Melvyn Bragg In Our Time Deep in the heart of the Pentagon is a network of computers. They control the US military, the most powerful army on the planet, and are in turn controlled by a programming language called Ada. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, the allegedly hard drinking 19th century mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron. In her work with Charles Babbage on a steam driven...
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CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Pickens writes “Today when most people refer to Ada it’s usually as a cautionary tale. The Defense Department commissioned the programming language in the late 1970s but few programmers used Ada, claiming it was difficult to use. Nonetheless many observers believe the basics of Ada are in place for wider use. Ada’s stringency causes more [...]
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RyanTAdams.com (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Pickens writes "Today when most people refer to Ada it's usually as a cautionary tale. The Defense Department commissioned the programming language in the late 1970s but few programmers used Ada, claiming it was difficult to use. Nonetheless many observers believe the basics of Ada are in place for wider use. Ada's stringency causes more work for programmers, but it will also make the code more secure,...
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TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Pickens writes “Today when most people refer to Ada it’s usually as a cautionary tale. The Defense Department commissioned the programming language in the late 1970s but few programmers used Ada, claiming it was difficult to use. Nonetheless many observers believe the basics of Ada are in place for wider use. Ada’s stringency causes more [...]
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http://podblack.wordpress.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Thanks to G! xxx! Some guys are trying to turn LOLCATS into a programming language… http://lolcode.com So far looks like it would be possible to write a compiler for it. Syntax is fairly similar to something like Ada or another Pascal variant.
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Lets be clear, I'm a fan of formalism. The best pure programming language I've ever used was Eiffel, the best programming language I've ever used in a large team for delivering the best code out of average developers and minimising issues was Ada. At Uni I had to learn Z notation and formal proofs and I've even used some of that stuff in certain highly reliable systems I've worked on down the
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Tech Watch (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Is Java partly responsible for a neglect of basic skills in computer science education? Two professors emeritus at New York University, who also happen to be executives at AdaCore, which specializes in the Ada programming language, criticize Java in an article entitled "Computer Science Education: Where Are The Software Engineers of Tomorrow?" in CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Engineering, this...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/27/2007
This article appeared in today's New York Times and reflects the new morality. It should be noted that the Bishops of New York and New Jersey where these priests all serve have been invited to Lambeth 2008, rendering The Windsor Report's requirements redundant. May 27, 2007 Mark Lewis, Dennis Winslow The Rev. Mark Alan Lewis and the [...]
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Soft32.com - Windows - New Releases (Free subscription) | 05/25/2007
updated on Fri, 25 May 2007 02:25:22 CDT - IDE that provides powerful programming. Lite on your Pocketbook, not on tools.
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Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 05/23/2007
Chicago Antique Market Art & Design Events... It's time for Spring Cleaning on Apartment Therapy. Tips on how to make the most of cleaning jobs? Tried and true cleaning tricks and how-to's? Email us! Next month we'll be blogging...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/23/2007
Source: [b]Washington Post[/b] When Jeffrey A. Taylor, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wanted to hire a new career prosecutor last fall, he had to run the idea past Monica M. Goodling, then a 33-year-old aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. The candidate was Seth Ada...
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Whimsy's Enclave (Free subscription) | 05/23/2007
There's an interesting visiting editorial in this month's Queue from the Association of Computing Machinery. The author reviews the decades-old fight among proponents of different programming languages, and in particular, the devotees of literate programming. I'm old enough to have...
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Prabhu n Ferrari (Free subscription) | 05/15/2007
He and she decide to buy a car. After having decided on Swift, they discuss on the color looking at the swift website. She: Black color nanna irukku la He: Oh yeah. Enna munnadiyum pinnadiyum neraya maalai maatanum She: maalai aa? He: Yeah. Appo dhaane mortuary van madhiri irukkum She: vaaya vakkadhayen! He: Seri seri. Seriously black looks good in [...]
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The Housing Bubble Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2007
The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “Last week, Denver-based MDC Holdings, builder of Richmond American Homes, reported a $94.4 million loss for the first quarter. Additionally, MDC said prospective homebuyers are having a more difficult time selling their homes so they can buy new homes. MDC is hardly alone. Other large, national developers that build [...]
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2007
It was the birthday party of Raja Mukerji's daughter, Myiesha, and star mommies and daddies trooped in to this suburban five-star hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday afternoon with their kiddies to celebrate the little one's big day.
