Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code

[Optikos <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>]

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 7:25:42 PM UTC-5, Olivier Henley wrote:
> Wow!  https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/
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> This is ugly, lol... and they give another go in C++. (facepalm)
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> For sure it would have fewer bugs or even no bugs in Ada.
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> 1. The modeling power (embedded clarity combined with capabilities/paradigms properly supported) of Ada has no equivalent.
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> 2. Nothing hard about making clean multithreading.
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> 3. Using object-oriented techniques for handling complexity while retaining flexibility and reusability is Part 3 of John English, Ada 95: The craft of object-oriented programming ... and any good undergrad software book written since 1996.
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> Other languages are underspecified, lack features uniformity, are plagued by idiom trends, and the average Joes inevitably pile up their own party mess by arguing their right to express their style of programming, more often than not, under the auspice of a god syndrome lacking frugal taste. 
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> Ada just cuts the crap on all of these fronts while retaining all the crucial bits of something like C and C++, performance and low level hand really. Is is that simple.
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> Governments should just force Ada on their workforce. The public pays and therefore should be entitled to quality stuff that compounds. If you do not want to learn it, ... like you learned Python on Youtube, on the job for the last 3 months, well you know where the door is.
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> Enough with the clowns...

Clowns will dominate the pandemic-forecasting domain until we don't just put up a 3-ring tent for the latest pandemic's circus coming to town each time.  Putting up a temporary tent on the spur of the moment for the circus coming to town is not how society runs anything else of significant impact:  investing, military defense, civilian government's constitutional responsibilities.  To that end:

Are there any government or NGO grants to which one or more respondents from the Ada community could apply to submit (or better yet, receive grant funding for) a competing Ada pandemic-forecasting model (or better yet multiple models written in Ada that focus on different sets of parameters and assumptions)?

all the hurricane-forecast models by NHC of NOAA:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/modelsummary.shtml

The goal would be for humankind to have a plethora of competing pandemic-forecast models (some of which implemented in Ada) that somewhat resemble the plethora of competing hurricane-forecast models with which we have become familiar seeing plotted as spaghetti each hurricane to see where the preponderance is and which ones are suspect outliers that have applicability only if their bizarre situation is triggered.

example spaghetti plot of all the hurricane-forecast models by NHC of NOAA:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AL11_current-980x735.png

Such interested parties might not be only the obvious ones (e.g., the WHO) but also various militaries, hence the even stronger Ada tie-in.