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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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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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