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by dailykoder 1398 days ago
Wow, I never really looked at Ada code. Been using VHDL for the past 2 years a lot and when I looked at your code I was like: 'huh strange, this looks a lot like VHDL'.

Turns out both were invented by the DoD.

>Due to the Department of Defense requiring as much of the syntax as possible to be based on Ada, in order to avoid re-inventing concepts that had already been thoroughly tested in the development of Ada,[citation needed] VHDL borrows heavily from the Ada programming language in both concept and syntax. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL

Maybe I should pick up Ada soon. That could be a fun journey! (I really love writing VHDL)