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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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On 2015-11-06 08:46, 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 do. My first job used Ada in a Warehouse Management system
and I got to work with it. I still do.
I was employed in 1997

I did learn some Pascal at school,
but the programming experience I had was
summertime jobs in Visual Basic 3/4/5

-- 
Björn