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Learning Ada is worth your while, embedded or no. Hint: If you have a problem and you find yourself reaching for C++, consider Ada instead. It's probably powerful enough for the task, safer, and more readable (therefore maintainable).

Try implementing Unix utilities (cat, ls, echo) in it for a weekend of fun. :)

My one true love programming language is Pascal (mainly because when I was exposed to it I'd only every used BASIC) and later Object Pascal.

Looking at Ada I see a lot of similarities, it looks like "home" to me.

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