From: R. B. Love <rblove@airmail.net>
Subject: Ada downsizing in space
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:41:34 -0600
Date: 2007-02-17T17:41:34-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2007021717413416807-rblove@airmailnet> (raw)
It was very pleasant reading the recent thread about "Ada is popular
after all" but local events make me think other wise.
I have to believe that the International Space Station (ISS) was one of
the biggest Ada projects in the world, employing people in several
nations writing Ada. NASA has decreed that there must be a 15%
reduction in spending on ISS and Boeing responded Friday with layoff
notices going to between 140 and 180 people. A good many of them are
Ada programmers.
All the work I see being done for CEV is C or C++. LockMart, the same
people who spiked Ada for with the Secretary of the Air Force on SBIRS,
seems determined to make everything C++.
Now some of us will be employed for years maintaining existing ISS
code. The transition from development to maintanence had to come
someday.
It would be very interesting to hear about new, large Ada projects
anywhere. Does someone still maintain a list?
If anyone is hiring Ada programmers, I expect your recruiting dollars
would go far in Houston.
next reply other threads:[~2007-02-17 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 23:41 R. B. Love [this message]
2007-02-18 14:58 ` Ada downsizing in space Jeffrey Creem
2007-02-18 17:15 ` R.B. Love
2007-02-18 18:20 ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-02-18 23:25 ` Björn Persson
[not found] ` <PM000429CA00A4EABE@tilopa.unknown.dom>
2007-02-19 1:13 ` Ed Falis
2007-02-20 2:15 ` R. B. Love
2007-02-20 12:21 ` "autocode" vs "intermediate code" Stephen Leake
2007-02-20 15:41 ` Ed Falis
2007-02-21 1:11 ` Britt Snodgrass
2007-02-21 12:57 ` Ed Falis
2007-02-20 17:10 ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-21 1:36 ` Upkeep
2007-02-20 15:41 ` Ada downsizing in space Ed Falis
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