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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 02:32:09 +0000 (UTC)
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>
>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.