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Software Orthodoxy
Personal blog · sworthodoxy.blogspot.comprogramming
Software Orthodoxy is a personal blog at sworthodoxy.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Comparing Ada and High Integrity C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover low-level programming topics such as bit fields, comparing Ada and C. One commenter cites the blog's Ada vs C bit fields post as a reference for representation clauses and endianness.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Comparing Ada and High Integrity C++2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-28
What Hacker News says?
Bitfields are integrated in Ada and created through representation clauses : http://sworthodoxy.blogspot.com/2014/03/ada-vs-c-bit-fields.... You can also set the endianness (bit and byte order) : https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-140-bridging-the-endianness... (I think it was added in a recent language revision). Add to that the 'Component_Size attribute and the ability to specialize representation information easily…
Comment linking /2014/03/ada-vs-c-bit-fields.html
on “A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields”Submitted Ada Concurrency (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Ada and High Integrity C++ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Ada and High Integrity C++ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Threads of Confusion as a story · 1 points
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