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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:59:29 +0100
Date: 2015-11-09T09:59:29+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lha735vy.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: KVY_x.43977$bN3.6973@fx06.am1

Nick Gordon <annihilan@gmail.com> 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?

I 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?

Professionally I've moved from Borland Pascal to Ada as my primary
implementation language, but I've also used C, C++, Java, Python, Oracle
PL/SQL and SPARK where it has been relevant.

I started learning programming with a FORTRAN IV textbook and a FORTRAN
77 compiler (around 1985).  Then I moved to COMAL, BASIC and Borland
Pascal.  I have of course also played around with other programming
languages (Postscript, Erlang, Dart and Parasail among many others).

I stumbled over an Ada book at the library in 1993, and started using
Ada in January 1995, when GNAT and the Ada 95 LRM became available.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"Homo sapiens does rational thought like flying squirrels fly."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-06  7:46 How many of you have Ada programming careers? Nick Gordon
2015-11-06  8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-11-06  8:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-11-06 12:02 ` Aurele
2015-11-06 15:52 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-11-06 18:04   ` AdaMagica
2015-11-06 18:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-06 19:22 ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-11-06 20:57 ` mockturtle
2015-11-06 23:10 ` Paul Rubin
2015-11-07  2:11 ` Jerry Petrey
2015-11-07  3:31 ` R. B. Love
2015-11-07  7:43 ` Per Sandberg
2015-11-07  7:51   ` Per Sandberg
2015-11-07  8:07 ` Charles H. Sampson
2015-11-07  8:59 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-11-11 11:13   ` gautier_niouzes
2015-11-07  9:38 ` Martin
2015-11-07  9:38 ` Chris Moore
2015-11-07 12:19 ` Simon Wright
2015-11-07 14:26 ` Björn Lundin
2015-11-07 16:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-11-09  2:32   ` tmoran
2015-11-09  8:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2015-11-10 19:58 ` Lucretia
2015-11-10 21:07 ` Luke A. Guest
2015-11-10 21:31   ` Luke A. Guest
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2015-11-07  3:39 Nick Gordon
2015-11-07  4:41 ` Leo Brewin
2015-11-07  7:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-08  2:44   ` Nick Gordon
2015-11-08  6:39     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-11-08 16:31       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-11-11 20:46         ` Nick Gordon
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