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From: rblove@airmail.net (R. B. Love)
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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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Nick Gordon <annihilan@gmail.com> writes:

> 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've used Ada in my job at the Johnson Space Center for about 20 years
but I'm sad to say NASA is switching to C++.   Funny, that project is
way behind.   It may be time for me to think about retiring.