Ada

just discovered this language (Ada) and am thinking of learning it, it looks like it would be a very good language to make some small projects

what does /prog/ think?

2) using localhost for DNS is bad.
Explanation.

I use dnsmasq to (among a couple other tricks) provide names for all the systems on my home network, so on the system that's running the dnsmasq server my dns is pointing to 127.0.0.1. Not sure how else you expect to do that kind of thing.