I had been a Turbo Pascal Programmer and in the summer of 1990 joined British Aerospace as a programmer for their avionics test software. The first week I just

I had been a Turbo Pascal Programmer and in the summer of 1990 joined British Aerospace as a programmer for their avionics test software. The first week I just sat with an Ada book and compiler and taught myself and week two started using it in anger. Three weeks later they put me on a one week formal training course which I sailed through as I had picked it up pretty well by then. I know Ada now is different- it has OOP but back then it was very much like Pascal but string handling was stricter than TP. The on-aircraft software (which I didn't work on) didn't allow generics or threading.