Hi I am Hubert
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Hello out there,
now that I solved allready 70 Problems its much overdue to introduce my self. My name is Hubert, I was born a few 10,000,000 Seconds after epoch in Germany. My First Contact with Programming was the Comodore C64 of my brother and its BASIC interpreter, in the age of 15. I live in Aachen with my wife and work as a System Administrator at a Software Company. At work I've done a lot of ruby and bash scripting, a little Perl and Python, but there is no reason to use a compiled language. But I lost my Heart to Ada (the Language of course) and so I try to train my Ada skills here at Codeabby. My Hobbies are, besides learning coding in Ada, Cycling, Backing fancy cakes and fixing old technical things (old cars for example).
May the source be with you,
Hubert
Hello, Hubert!
Thanks for sharing your info - it is always great to learn a bit more about people here :)
I had a nice time trying to convert 10 millions seconds... Well, the day has 86400 so it is about 110 days, yes?
It is April of 1970, isn't it?
When I read about C64 and BASIC I felt envious - ah, those were great times, I believe! :)
If not a secret, how it came you get so much interest in Ada? By the way in Russian this language sounds quite special:
Ada is the ah... how is it in English... genitive case of Ad (hell) so the "Lanuage Ada" literally reads like
the "Language of Hell" :) Jokes aside - I myself have it in my "wish-list-to-learn" for it looks like as well structured
as Java which I use at work, but somewhat less inhumane :)
Hello,
You Calculate right but my input given was not precice enough. What I really meant with "a few" was 2 times of 10,000,000 seconds. With 20,000,000 seconds we are allready in August of 1970 and that is now really near to my Birthday. Ok, now I'am caught in my own I don't want to tell exactly how old I am trap. To get out of this: it is 20095440 seconds.
To my secret love Ada: "Language of Hell" fits sometimes really good. Maybe its because I am used to not that strong typed scripting languages.
I like Ada for its near spoken language syntax, even if its a lot more typing. Further on I don't care much about optimizing my code in telling the compiler what to do, thats the compilers job. And an Ada compiler does a good job in telling me what is wrong with my code. The compiler will take care about a lot things. For example: choosing the right floating point type. In Ada you can choose a mimimum precision like:
type myfloat is digits 12;
The compiler will choose the right machine type for this precision. And to be honest: Ada is an exotic language compared to java, C++ or C. On codeabby I am the top most ranked Ada programmer, because I am the only one ;-) .