I learned Ada in a survey course in the late 1980s. My impression was that it was perfectly fine, but no one was hiring Ada programmers other than in the immedi

I learned Ada in a survey course in the late 1980s. My impression was that it was perfectly fine, but no one was hiring Ada programmers other than in the immediate DC area. There were few public libraries to do stuff (compared with C or Fortran for example). Finally the defense industry imploded just before the technology boomed caused by the rise of the Internet. I vaguely recall intense licensing issues as well, like it was the only compiler we used which we had to return the floppy disks. So while we could hack around with C, Prolog, Perl, etc. we couldn't "play" with Ada outside of the course.