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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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From: Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 19:11:50 -0700
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On 11/6/2015 12:46 AM, Nick Gordon wrote:

> 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?
>
> Just curious! Any other relevant discussion is welcomed and I would love to chat about it.
>
> Nick
>

I starting programming using assembler, BASIC, C, Logo, Forth, and 
Pascal but switched to Ada about 25 years ago and never left it.  I 
worked mostly in the aerospace industry and since retiring I still use 
Ada a lot for embedded applications (mostly using the ARM F4 and F7 
micro-controllers).

Jerry