From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,563d1b715d872ad1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 14:22:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++? In-Reply-To: <7xTv7.11227$IY3.8208030@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> Message-ID: <20011007141253.G6134-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> References: <061020011935502631%demery@cox.rr.com> <7xTv7.11227$IY3.8208030@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:22:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1002489761 206.184.139.136 (Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:22:41 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:22:41 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13874 Date: 2001-10-07T21:22:41+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 tmoran@acm.org wrote: > >One of the most common reasons I hear for contractors moving from Ada is > It would surely help if Ada programming wasn't all located in less > desirable locales. I agree very strongly with this sentiment, and the other one which pointed out the lower pay scales for Ada. It would be great to find Ada projects but there just don't seem to be any in Silicon Valley, and the few I've seen have salaries at the very low end. > from beautiful Silicon Valley, where the weather is great, but You forgot to mention that the traffic problems have all but vanished too. 101 is now a speed limit, not the number of minutes it takes to travel 10 miles :-). > Ada programmers have a *very* low profile. ;) Indeed. And all of this talk of switching to C++ for weapons systems is scary. I guess we can be thankful that the DOD hasn't switched to Perl, yet... -- Brian