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1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 07:52:35 EST Verius
   Every time I try Ada out of curiosity I come to the same conclusion: it's the most user unfriendly programming language short of esolangs.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 09:26:33 EST Annah

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      @verius It becomes a lot easier to understand why it does things the way it does when you learn that it was essentially designed for the US Department of Defense.
      1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 13:38:51 EST Verius

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         @maiyannah Oh, that I know. And I understand why it's so utterly obsessed with safety and filling out everything in triplicate. The user unfriendly bit is more that the documentation seriously utterly sucks (you pretty much need to constantly reference the standard), the standard lib sucks (no regexes, no type for a date (only Day_Number, Month_Number and Year_Number) and the package ecosystem sucks (central listing of packages, what's that?).
         1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 16:47:56 EST Annah

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            @verius I don't think it was ever intended to be used outside of DOD projects tbqh.
   2. Jan Koekepan (jankoekepan@freehold.earth)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:45:06 EST Jan Koekepan

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      @verius What in particular did you dislike about Ada? The strict syntax?