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_05,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d8e86e1b9bb29940,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn-xt-sjc-10!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: R. B. Love Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada downsizing in space Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:41:34 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <2007021717413416807-rblove@airmailnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Unison/1.7.9 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9356 Date: 2007-02-17T17:41:34-06:00 List-Id: 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.