Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada

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There seems to be no shortage of jobs for people who know Ada -- that's not
to say that they use Ada when they get hired, but knowing it and having
lots of experience in it seems to be counted as a plus.  I speak from the
experiences of my two most recent MS students who both appear to have been
snapped up by employers, one in Texas, the other in the south-bay area.

Judging by the discussions I had over the phone with their employers, they
were viewing Ada experience as having essentially the same impact as
object-oriented programming experience -- Ada is not, strictly, object
oriented, but in large projects, the Ada package and private type
mechanisms have a similar impact on the design process.

					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu