From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:08:05 -0700
Date: 2015-11-06T11:08:05-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n1iq5v$sn1$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <KVY_x.43977$bN3.6973@fx06.am1>
On 11/06/2015 12:46 AM, 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 out with FORTRAN-66. At various times I have also used assemblers, C,
COBOL, DATABUS, Pascal, Python, and Ratfor professionally.
I learned Ada in 1984 and it remains the best designed language of any I've
encountered.
--
Jeff Carter
"There's no messiah here. There's a mess all right, but no messiah."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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2015-11-06 7:46 How many of you have Ada programming careers? Nick Gordon
2015-11-06 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-11-06 8:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-11-06 12:02 ` Aurele
2015-11-06 15:52 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-11-06 18:04 ` AdaMagica
2015-11-06 18:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2015-11-06 19:22 ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-11-06 20:57 ` mockturtle
2015-11-06 23:10 ` Paul Rubin
2015-11-07 2:11 ` Jerry Petrey
2015-11-07 3:31 ` R. B. Love
2015-11-07 7:43 ` Per Sandberg
2015-11-07 7:51 ` Per Sandberg
2015-11-07 8:07 ` Charles H. Sampson
2015-11-07 8:59 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-11-11 11:13 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-11-07 9:38 ` Martin
2015-11-07 9:38 ` Chris Moore
2015-11-07 12:19 ` Simon Wright
2015-11-07 14:26 ` Björn Lundin
2015-11-07 16:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-11-09 2:32 ` tmoran
2015-11-09 8:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-11-10 19:58 ` Lucretia
2015-11-10 21:07 ` Luke A. Guest
2015-11-10 21:31 ` Luke A. Guest
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2015-11-07 3:39 Nick Gordon
2015-11-07 4:41 ` Leo Brewin
2015-11-07 7:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-08 2:44 ` Nick Gordon
2015-11-08 6:39 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-11-08 16:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-11-11 20:46 ` Nick Gordon
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