From: Jerry Petrey <gdp@mlb.cca.rockwell.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/23
Date: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3246FF85.2E06@mlb.cca.rockwell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 524sb9$t5g@lex.zippo.com
nasser@apldbio.com wrote:
>
> >
> >The Ada market continues to grow.
> >
>
> I don't see this. Have you looked at the help wanted Ads in the Sunday
> papers lately?
>
> In the commercial sector in the US there is almost no one using Ada.
>
> Ada is used mostly in DOD related software/real-time/embedded type
> of application.
>
> I believe Ada is a better/safer language than C/C++, but if no one uses
> it (other than few defense companies), it does not really matter how good
> it is (from the point of view of getting a job in it), why go into the
> pains of finding work in Ada in the US, and all that security
> clearance/interrogations thing one has to go through just to get the
> privilege to use it, when C/C++ jobs are all over the place and every
> where you want them and at any time, and they pay better too.
>
> When I retire in about 40 years (Ok, may be in 35 years :), I'll code in Ada
> just for the fun of it, but meanwhile I'll use C/C++ because that where
> the jobs are.
>
> Nasser
Anyone who relies on the Sunday paper for their source of jobs
deserves to be stuck with C :-) There are a lot of high paying
Ada jobs around (note that I'm speaking from a contractor's viewpoint)
but they usually aren't found in the newspaper. Many are in the
defense business but quite a few are not. There might be a number
of reasons for choosing not to learn Ada but lack of jobs is not
one of them.
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== Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada ==
== Rockwell Collins Commercial Avionics Group ==
== "a Commercial company using Ada" ==
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey [this message]
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
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1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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