158: Programming Is Too Difficult for Humans
Fabien Chouteau (@DesChips) of AdaCore (@AdaCoreCompany) spoke with us about theMake with Ada Programming Competition.
Giveaway boards are GONE.
The Ada programming language (wiki) is interesting in that it was designed for safety critical embedded systems (actually designed, requirements doc and everything!). The Ada Information Clearinghouse has a nice list of tutorials and books as does the very helpful Make with Ada Getting Started page. Elecia's favorite was Inspirel's Ada on Cortex.
Some neat projects in Ada that we mentioned on the show:
Fabien's CNC Controller (with code in github)…
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