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From: Marc C <mc.provisional@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada advocacy
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Date: 2012-03-20T07:39:38-07:00
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On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:54:38 AM UTC-5, tonyg wrote:
> I am currently fending off an attempt to have my project converted from A=
DA
>  to some un named monstrosity of a language. Reasons listed are
  <snip>
> programmers can not be found

This one is a pet peeve of mine. Has the project/company actually tried *lo=
oking* for Ada programmers?  If they don't seek, of course they're not goin=
g to find.  I regularly run into programmers who worked with Ada, liked it,=
 but ended having to move onto other languages. Given the opportunity to go=
 back to it, not a few would, they *just don't know of any available openin=
gs*!

And if an organization does deign to advertise, don't expect an Ada develop=
er to take a 25% pay cut and move their family across the country just for =
the privilege.  We're good engineers, dammit, recognizing talent and develo=
ping with Ada will get you a lot.

(Oh, and by what metric is Ada *2012* "archaic"? Python dates from 1989, C+=
+ from 1979, and the likely monstrosity, Java, dates from 1991. The *younge=
st* of these is over 20 years old. Don't give me no "archaic" BS.)

Marc A. Criley
Ada sub-reddit moderator
(http://www.reddit.com/r/ada)