From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.51.17.39 with SMTP id gb7mr9201656igd.11.1446843445423; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.44.169 with SMTP id f9mr222197obm.16.1446843445401; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!i2no484800igv.0!news-out.google.com!z4ni1097ign.0!nntp.google.com!i2no484789igv.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.37.91.78; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.37.91.78 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <058199c1-6f99-4898-a1fb-c0e23f51e6af@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers? From: mockturtle Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:57:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28248 Date: 2015-11-06T12:57:25-08:00 List-Id: Hi Nick, I was born in the '60, so in the '80 I had the right age to be fascinated b= y the first home computers (ZXes, Vic 20, ...). My very first language wer= e BASIC (at home) and FORTRAN (at high school, they made a special course o= n FORTRAN). Being a curious, since then I learned and used a good amount o= f languages.... In no special order: FORTRAN, Tcl/Tk, LISP, a bit of FORTH,= PostScript, C (ugh!), C++ (double ugh!), Ruby, PHP (double ugh with somers= aults!), few Assemblers... One day I read about Ada on a Italian computer magazine. I gave it a try a= nd... I felt in love with it. About my work, I am in University and I do research and teach in signal pro= cessing. 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 tha= t do their final project with me... Usually they love Ada too). Riccardo