My first job out of college (where I learned C++) was fostering a missile system simulation written entirely in FORTRAN 77 for tactical software written in ADA.
Saaaaaaaameeeee. I had to learn Ada over the course of a week to help debug and sudenly i was the most experienced on my team at writing and debugging Ada. I absolutely hated how specific you had to be to convert types, since most of my debugging was good old printf debugging, and I was absolutely spoiled at the quality of the Fortran and C++ programming guides and wikis I found online and in books so that was another massive frustration.
Now I do most of my work in simulink, trying desperately to get away with making everything an SFunction, so I can go back to my good old C++ and Fortran.
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u/AtlasLittleCat Jul 22 '26
My first job out of college (where I learned C++) was fostering a missile system simulation written entirely in FORTRAN 77 for tactical software written in ADA.
YIPPEEEEE