You don't know the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance?

No, you are supposed to get the reference, kiddo.

"British-American" ? This hyphen shit has gone on long enough. He's either American or he's not.

"Terra" watts?

I think it's more ridiculous to think you personally knew every one of the 660 - 3,300 people in your class. There were ~200 in my senior class and I don't think I could claim I knew for sure that none of the 200 had even a single lazy eye. I would be surprised if that's the case.

Can you claim "woosh" if it wasn't funny?

All these people saying Europe is smarter for only charging for outgoing calls are conveniently neglecting to mention that in Europe, you get charged more to call a cell phone than a land line. In Europe, you can tell which phones are cell phones by the number. In the US, you can't make that distinction based on the number, but it also the cost of making the phone call to a specific area code is the same regardless if the number is tied to a cell phone or a land line. At least, that's how it was when I left the US 13 years ago.

So I could tell a European with a attitude like @redback, "It's your stupid fault for letting a phone company charge you more just because the other party owns a cell phone instead of a land line". How does that taste?

On their ample fat reserves?

You've stumped me on AS/400 -- I'm having a hard time find viable Ada options for even modern IBM mainframes. (iSeries)

To be fair, the context was openssl. Is that going to be realistically run on 8-bit bare metal?

It's generally not too hard get GNAT running on any platform that gcc runs on, but 8-bit would be pretty challenging I think.

Can you name two environments that openSSL runs on where Ada is not an option? Or even one? I am genuinely curious.

It is possible to create powerful sites generated in Ada. One popular option is the Ada Web Server ( http://www.adacore.com/aws ) ( http://www.freshports.org/www/... ), plus it's possible to create cgi and fast-cgi applications using various libraries.

GNAT stacks up very well against the C targets, especially with embedded, bare metal, and cross-compilers. What types of environment do you think Ada is used in? (hint, those)

Actually, you do not have to pay for for an Ada android cross-compiler and one has been available for 3 years already. Here is the latest gcc 4.9-based free (in every sense) android/arm cross compiler with FreeBSD as host (DragonFly BSD is also an option)

http://www.freshports.org/lang...

And here are the testsuite results: http://www.dragonlace.net/gnat...

The only test it fails are the stack-check tests, and that is because gcc doesn't support it yet (a patch was produced but it's not be accepted yet).

That's a well-known troll site, which should be obvious even to the uninitiated after reading 20 lines in. So either you're gullible or you are perpetuating that guy's troll intentionally. Neither option looks good for you, sorry.

"shot" is an acceptable synonym for launch, so that's a fail. The other two qualify as pedantry though.