Yup. Or deer shaving, in this case. The punchline is he never actually got round to shooting a deer.
I do think he understated the difficulty of the hunt itself. He's planning to use the "supervision" rule to avoid needing his own firearm license, and male deer are indeed unlicensed for shooting (but not female deer!). Then you have to find one. He's right that they have reached "pest" status, since humans killed off the wolves. Every now and again someone suggests reintroducing the wolves, to cull the deer (and occasional tourists).
The open terrain (because the deer eat saplings) can make it easier. I have a great photo somewhere of a single majestic deer which I just happened to see from the road when I had my telephoto lens with me and mounted on the camera. I've even once seen a deer in Edinburgh itself, along a railway cutting.
Is this supposed to be some sort of own? That article is about language features Ada has to reduce verbosity, including operator overloading and some brevity features.
A explicit strong, statically typed language is going to have a lot of text in the file about types. When Ada came out this was a jarring concept for a lot of people (especially C programmers) which lead to the "Ada is a bureaucratic language" complaint. In fact, Ada has stuff like operator overloading where C, for instance, does not. But it absolutely has types and they absolutely are not optional and are explicit.
In the past you could easily use Ada or anything else from Linux under Cygwin.
Nowadays, you should be able to use anything from Linux under WSL.
In the past using Ada was more painful, because you had to use some old version of gcc, which could clash with the modern gcc used for C/C++/Fortran etc.
However, during the last few years these problems have disappeared. If you build any current gcc version, you must just choose the option of having ada among the available languages and all will work smoothly.
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