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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:07:55 +0000
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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.