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Subject: Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!
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> Depends. If your enthusiasm for Ada will make you apply for a job in the 
> actual industry where Ada was being used since forever (like in aviation), 
> then, yes, you will touch another compiler, and typically you will have no 
> choice.

I had a friend at Thales... and from what I understand, actually writing software is not for everyone. He and a bunch of others were running unit tests all day long. 

> In any case, as you have seen with its own standard library, it's not like 
> GNAT turns every Ada project into a programming paradise (and it's not like > every C++ project is a programming hell).

Maybe not but an all Ada chain of 3rd parties + grpbuild is miles ahead of VisualStudio proj or cmake or (bunch of scripts + make), all of them as an all C/C++ chain of 3rd party.