Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?

[Leo Brewin <leo.brewin@internode.on.net>]

I switched to Ada about 5 years ago. I cut my teeth on Pascal (20 years) and Fortran (3 years). I moved over to Ada after it became clear that the gpc (the gnu pascal compiler) was falling behind the gcc collection. The change to Ada was amazing. It's such a fantastic language with all the elements I need (I work in large scale scientific computation in a university maths department). I love the strong typing, I love the simplicity of creating new types and extending operations on them. I have no need of any other computational language (though for housekeeping I do use bash and ruby). I look at my colleagues  and the mess that is their Fortran and C and I thank my lucky stars that I'm using Ada -- the array syntax of C is just too scary (amongst so many other problems). I love the use of attributes, generics, initialisation, tasking, packages, exceptions. Where do I stop? Its just the ideal language for scientific computing. Yes, I'm a true believer.

Cheers,
Leo