Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?

[Chris Moore <zmower@ntlworld.com>]

On 06/11/2015 07:46, 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++.

That's a good starting list.  No functional languages tho.

> 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?

Yes, I use Ada at work (defense). I started with BBC basic and 6502 
assembler, moved on to Pascal and C.  Fortran briefly.  Played with C++ 
but came away with a really bad impression.

First contact with Ada was circa 1995.  It was a light-bulb moment. 
Programs you can reason about!  Built-in concurrency?  Sign me up!

I'm currently working on a simulator with a large codebase.  Ada, C, 
C++, C#.  The latter is quite nice but the recent thread posted here 
about it's short-comings is spot on.

I'm also hacking on a lisp interpreter in my spare time.  Written in Ada 
naturally.

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

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