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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:09:47 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Ada is not a dead language, by any means. The current interest in
> writing more memory-safe code isn’t just being spearheaded by Rust: Ada
> was doing this sort of thing decades ago.

Back when the Boston Globe Sunday edition was a source of jobs rather than 
LinkedIn I remember ads calling for three years of Ada experience -- 
before there was a real live working Ada compiler. HR never changes...