Hello! I had to leave Ada on the shelf for 16 years now for work. Unfortunately I was let go from that job, and I’m looking to get back into Ada, in some fashion. I have a few questions that I hope people here can help with.
If I were to apply for embedded jobs that use Ada, is there some kind of certification I could get to show I know Ada well enough? I’ve already contacted AdaCore and they do not offer certification. A couple of colleges near me offer Embedded Development classes at the Master’s level but course prerequisites exist, and my transcripts are ancient. I’d probably be looking at paying A LOT of money.
Another question I have, unrelated to certification, comes from a comment made by an Ada developer many years ago. For a short while I participated in the very first discussions of the AdaOS project. Back then, a comment was made, that I only partially remember. Someone had said something like, “…because the operating system isn’t written in Ada”.
It wasn’t until I became unemployed, and started thinking about Ada, that this came to mind for some odd reason. And I don’t even remember the whole statement, or question it answered! It is driving me NUTS!
If anyone could help make sense of that statement, that’d be great! I’m assuming that answer was given to a question about compilers on PC. On PC, don’t Ada compilers output C? Maybe this is what it addresses.
Anyway…apparently I have a lot to relearn.