From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:38:08 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2015-11-07T01:38:08-08:00 [thread overview]
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On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 7:46:53 AM UTC, Nick Gordon wrote:
> I'm currently learning Ada mostly as an exercise in learning strong typing,
> but I also like the principle of strong, safe coding that resists bugs and errors.
> Advertising aside, I have entertained over the last several months learning Ada to a professional level,
> in the way that my current undergraduate studies are pushing Ruby, Java, and C++.
>
> 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
My first home computer was a ZX Spectrum, so Sinclair Basic + Z80 assembler were my first programming languages.
After that I was taught COBOL, C, SML/NJ.
Then I professionally worked in a couple of real-time variants of Pascal (including Pascal/D80 - developed by our own John Barnes), all versions of Ada, a couple of C and C++, bash, csh, MS-DOS, Java and Python.
Of all those languages Ada is by far the most easy to get things done, correctly and quickly.
I did (nearly) laugh when a colleague, with a very C-bias, referred to a 'debugging phase'...only when you're programming with a language beginning with 'C'...and I think they thought this was 'normal'!!
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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 [this message]
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
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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