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Once I read a story about a hardcore C developer that was forced to work on an Ada project.

In the beginning she was complaining a lot about the language's verbosity, but with the time she spent on the project she eventually became an Ada advocate! :)

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That's a great anecdote. All to often you find when people are forced to do something they hate it no matter what, whether it's deserved or not. I'm guilty of this a bit myself. Ada had a DoD mandate in the 90s which really riled a lot of folks and put them off of the language for good. It's part of the reason Ada has not had more of an impact in our lives. That, and compilers for Ada were much more expensive then as well. For many many years though we've had GNAT, a free software project and GCC frontend. We are truly lucky to have it developed by it's corporate steward which is funded by dual-licensing the compiler for FLOSS and commercial support contracts.

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