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That's reasonable (and I actually do like Ada somewhat) but the satisfaction of figuring out a nice algorithm in APL and writing an equivalent in Ada are just… not the same.

Though I'm not really sure I'd call maintaining invariants and pre/postconditions mathematical elegance per se, it feels like good engineering. Like you've built something that's solid.



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