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!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers? Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:52:41 +0200 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net UUWkyiKF66keTMRyqlcjjg/S31urb4+LpxGXXt4nN9eg1tVzSV Cancel-Lock: sha1:FkVk8p594J3LNu4IYbxZylNvzHk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28241 Date: 2015-11-06T17:52:41+02:00 List-Id: On 15-11-06 09:46 , 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? 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? I started with Burroughs Extended Algol around 1970. I also learned and professionally used Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, various Basics, assembly languages, C, ... First experience with Ada in mid-1980's IIRC, with DEC Ada on MicroVAX. Currently doing Ada professionally, both in my day job (spacecraft on-board SW, since about 1995) and in my own side business (program analysis tools). -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .