Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> Nick Gordon <annihilan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Further to my last response...
> 
>> Since you guys (and I suppose possibly girls, too) are quite venerable
>> regarding Ada, I wonder how many of you use Ada at work? If you do, did
>> you start with Ada, or did you start as a systems programmer in C, and
>> move over to Ada because of the safety, or something like that?
> 
> I started with Spectrum BASIC, then C on ST then Amiga. Learnt Ada9X at
> Uni. Had to use C++ then C in a games company, burned out, left and due to
> the endless hours sitting in a debugger went back to Ada. Used it since for
> my own stuff. Really liking Ada 2012 but think 2020 will be better still.
> 
> Luke.
> 
> 

I forgot to add m68k Sam on Amiga, Started COBOL at college, got bored and
learnt Pascal instead.