Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

Hi Nick,
I was born in the '60, so in the '80 I had the right age to be fascinated by the first home computers (ZXes, Vic 20, ...).  My very first language were BASIC (at home) and FORTRAN (at high school, they made a special course on FORTRAN).  Being a curious, since then I learned and used a good amount of languages.... In no special order: FORTRAN, Tcl/Tk, LISP, a bit of FORTH, PostScript, C (ugh!), C++ (double ugh!), Ruby, PHP (double ugh with somersaults!), few Assemblers...

One day I read about Ada on a Italian computer magazine.  I gave it a try and... I felt in love with it.

About my work, I am in University and I do research and teach in signal processing.  I mostly use Matlab for my DSP stuff, but for long-lived software Ada is the language of my choice (choice that I impose on the students that do their final project with me... Usually they love Ada too).

Riccardo