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From: Nick Gordon <annihilan@gmail.com>
Subject: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Summary: How many people use Ada at work?
Keywords: career, work
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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