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From: Per Sandberg <per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se>
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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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Should be "6 years ago".
/Per



Den 2015-11-07 08:43, Per Sandberg skrev:
> Well
>
> Started with Pascal, C and Assembly back in the mid 80:s and went to
> Philips later acquired by SAAB to start build a new generation of
> Command And Control Systems written in Ada and have been there since
> then. So now days i am using Ada, C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Make, Word,
> Excel, and many more to build systems but the main language is Ada.
>
> And as a side track because we needed it i got involved in
>    http://www.adacore.com/defense-avionics-ada-dds
> some 6 ago.
>
> /Per
>
>
> Den 2015-11-06 08:46, Nick Gordon skrev:
>> 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
>>