Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?

[tmoran@acm.org]

>
>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?
>

  Though tecnically retired, I currently use Ada for volunteer work at the
local Community Access TV station.  Seven years ago its funding was
drastically cut so I automated as much as possible, using Ada, to enable
it to continue operating with 1/4 the staff.
  I learned programming with NELIAC, an Algol 58 offshoot, then used
Fortran, COBOL, and Burroughs Algol, then C in the '80s.  Ada looked
interesting and when I saw an ad for a $100 Ada compiler for the PC,
I got it.  Currently I also use Javascript (ugh!, but it runs everywhere),
often in tight communication with an Ada program on a PC.