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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Marc C wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> tonyg wrote:
>> I am currently fending off an attempt to have my project converted from
>> ADA to some un named monstrosity of a language. Reasons listed are
>  <snip>
>> programmers can not be found
> 
> This one is a pet peeve of mine. Has the project/company actually tried
> *looking* for Ada programmers?  If they don't seek, of course they're not
> going to find.  I regularly run into programmers who worked with Ada,
> liked it, but ended having to move onto other languages. Given the
> opportunity to go back to it, not a few would, they *just don't know of
> any available openings*!
> 
> And if an organization does deign to advertise, don't expect an Ada
> developer to take a 25% pay cut and move their family across the country
> just for the privilege.  We're good engineers, dammit, recognizing talent
> and developing with Ada will get you a lot.
> 
> (Oh, and by what metric is Ada *2012* "archaic"? Python dates from 1989,
> C++ from 1979, and the likely monstrosity, Java, dates from 1991. The
> *youngest* of these is over 20 years old. Don't give me no "archaic" BS.)

+1

Some more ammo:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnat+gnat-4.1+gnat-4.3+gnat-4.4+gnat-4.5+gnat-4.6&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

This shows that the number of people using gnat on Debian is increasing.
The current number is approximately 1000 (blue line: installations of
the gnat-4.4 package).  This is how many machines:

- run Debian (not a derivative like Ubuntu!)
- *and* have gnat-4.4 installed
- *and* enrolled in the Debian popularity contest
- *and* are connected to the internet.

The overall number of Ada programmers must be at least a couple
orders of magnitude larger.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.