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I got to use Ada for eight months in 1997, on a co-op at Rockwell-Collins in their General Aviation department. I learned and wrote a lot of Ada and I loved it
by meej 6y ago
I got to use Ada for eight months in 1997, on a co-op at Rockwell-Collins in their General Aviation department. I learned and wrote a lot of Ada and I loved it. When I had to go back to school in the fall, I was no longer interested in writing C++ and it kind of bummed me out to have to use it again.
- pjmlp 6y agoIronically what got me into C++ in 1993, was being able to make use of a type system similar to Turbo Pascal's one that I got to love (I was using TP 6/TPW 1.5 by then), alongside "cheap" compilers and widespread availability on home computers. I just used C for a couple of months before being given a copy of Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, and since then I only used C when the option was outside of my control. It already felt primitive in 1992/1993 vs the alternatives, and so far C17 has hardly changed in that regard.
- rbanffy 6y agoI had a similar experience. I learned Smalltalk and then, when I tried to learn C++, I saw the bit-shift operator be used to output stuff to the terminal. It took me 8 years to get over the initial disgust and learn C++.