People on HN and elsewhere frequently slam Ada (on the rare occasion it comes up) but I really liked it, in the one college course I took that used it. That may

People on HN and elsewhere frequently slam Ada (on the rare occasion it comes up) but I really liked it, in the one college course I took that used it. That may have to do with becoming fluent in Pascal before doing much with C, and considering the general appearance of similar languages to be more pleasant.