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ANNEXI-STRAYLINE Inc.
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ANNEXI-STRAYLINE Inc. is the company blog at annexi-strayline.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Should Have Used Ada #1 – How some famous vulnerabilities wouldn't have”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for writing about the Ada programming language, including a piece on giving Ada a chance and a post on uninitialized memory in Ada.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Should Have Used Ada #1 – How some famous vulnerabilities wouldn't have2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-14
What Hacker News says?
This was a good read. I instantly recognized the title of the textbook that is mentioned in the blogpost? I own it! Having a background in C, I went back and forth with Ada for years, without really jumping all in. In the last couple years in particular, with the growing popularity of Rust, I started to renew my interest. I'm reminded of a popular reddit thread on r/Ada-- someone called Rust a "toy language", which…
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on “Giving Ada a Chance”Submitted Aura – The Ada User Repository Annex as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThe real issue is the C and C++ languages are horrible languages. They're too high-level to correspond to any real machine, yet so low-level so as to make such an abstract machine useful. The C language leaves the precise lengths of types up for grabs, as merely one example. As for Rust, I'd figure it's poor as well, considering it follows in the footsteps of C++. I can compile an Ada program that has an uninitializ…
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on ““What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory”Submitted Should Have Used Ada (SHUA) #1 – Goto Fail as a story · 21 points
HN discussionAlso corrected in Ada: https://annexi-strayline.com/blog/posts/1
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on “Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?”Submitted Should Have Used Ada #1 – How some famous vulnerabilities wouldn't have as a story · 4 points
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