From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers? Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:59:29 +0100 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87lha735vy.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.57.139.4.mobile.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1447059570 9289 109.57.139.4 (9 Nov 2015 08:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 08:59:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NhAHdmKUnKeDTyhjYhxAWIWaXOw= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28279 Date: 2015-11-09T09:59:29+01:00 List-Id: 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? 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."