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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
> 
> I didn't get hooked on Ada 20 years ago. It was about 3 years ago. And
> contrary to C Ada evolved into something better (Ada 95).

As for myself, I learned ancient Fortran, C and C++ first, and have
switched to Fortran 95 and Eiffel.