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!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:54:20 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers? Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:54:24 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.178.61 X-Trace: sv3-LQMk/WgZFPHoNZVjS0TvHAUhT/9iVEg2lmPcPhoHiCoY8M4/elWnMZ501DkuocLLRHyxQtMuJiWw9CV!dhcALa/6KVvkZnwrSeXmDzpIR5mtB9s8yKDunKe+zkeFSD+i1o+C0q7+VnvNGVcrlbGG+T/wKRBB!bBwaBpaeQLfi+vGpI6cjHo0czKQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2955 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28268 Date: 2015-11-07T11:54:24-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 07:46:50 GMT, Nick Gordon declaimed the following: > >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? > In one respect, C was the last (compiled) language for me (I include C++, but know that I'm behind on that too). College was (in parallel) FORTRAN-IV, Advanced F-IV, Assembly (XDS Sigma 6) & COBOL (72/74?), Adv. COBOL, Database (DBTG Network). Pascal (UCSD), APL, Macro-11 (for the OS course -- can't have students mucking with the campus mainframe after all). I did a short report on Ada for the languages survey class in my senior year -- all based upon the SIGPlan reference/rationale, and a copy of http://www.amazon.com/Programming-With-Ada-Introduction-Prentice-Hall/dp/0137306970 This was before the NYU Ada/Ed system went live. Post-college employment sent me down for a 4-day course in Ada, January 81 -- still no actual programming, just lecture. Mil-Std 1815 had only been issued a month prior. It was another 24 years before I got to an assignment using Ada; the program I'd been on was mostly FORTRAN-77 (and didn't fall under the DOD mandate of "new projects use Ada", since we were maintaining/upgrading/porting applications that started life in the 70s). Current employment is a mix of Ada (83) (using a cross-compiler hosted on OpenVMS running via an emulator on a Windows Server), and C. Python for knock-off processing. Most of my C experience was initially Pro-MC on TRS-80, and SAS(?)&Aztec C on the Amiga. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/