Re: Can an amateur find an Ada job?

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Monday, 30 December 2013 20:38:25 UTC, Victor Porton  wrote:
> In past years I used Ada 95 as an amateur.
> 
> Recently I've lost a PHP programming job.
> 
> Now after this I've applied to about 20 jobs (mostly related to PHP) and yet 
> wait for answers to arrive. Maybe tomorrow I will start searching also for 
> Perl jobs. I search for a part time telecommuting job.
> 
> But now I thought, it would be more interesting to do Ada programming than 
> PHP programming, and salary for an Ada programming I think would be greater.
> 
> Does it make sense to re-read Ada Reference Manual to refresh my memory and 
> attempt to find an Ada job, taking into account that I have not even 
> finished university degree?

While we are sure that there are no part-time jobs for Ada programmers and there is no chance to do telecommute and the places where Ada is used are generally some of the weirdest places to live, i.e. socially-wise, like in England, Fareham??? WTF? Anyways...

Ada needs to be extended into new areas to produce these new jobs! Why should Ada stick to military, aero-space, rail, etc? Why can't it be extended into small embedded applications, like small ARM/MIPS boards (or smaller)? Why can't it be extended into the games industry (apart from the bigoted view by the C and C++ programmers who think they're better than the rest of us who still, by the way, are still having bounds errors, leaks and other compile time problems)? What about film and TV? Audio?

Seriously, be one of the enlightened, create something with this language and help to increase it's usage and maybe it'll just produce a job or two somewhere for us.

Otherwise, we may as well all just leave the language behind as a bad job and design a new one that's better than all the rest and not weird like Haskell or PROLOG or one that's not just a "let's make C safe."

Luke.