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On 29/07/2022 20:05, Gautier write-only address wrote:
>Le vendredi 29 juillet 2022 à 13:03:39 UTC+2, John McCabe a écrit :
>
>> The alternative would be to go and join a team that's already 
>> using Ada, but every Ada job I've seen come up locally is to support code 
>> that was written in Ada 95; I'd rather be looking at Ada 2005 -> if I was 
>> to make that jump.
>
>It should not be a problem, since each version of Ada is compatible with the previous one.
>You can bring in whatever new feature is supported, especially in new packages or projects.
>It's only a problem if your boss requires to stick with Ada 95.

It's the latter; it mostly appears to be jobs that have a contractual need
 to use the same compiler that was used to develop the original code 20
 years ago, as it's known, certified etc.