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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f05f6c2ca4c91ddd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jerry Petrey Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada Date: 1996/09/23 Message-ID: <3246FF85.2E06@mlb.cca.rockwell.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 184887969 references: <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net> <524sb9$t5g@lex.zippo.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Rockwell Collins Avionics mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: gdp@mlb.cca.rockwell.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Date: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ====================================================================== == Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada == == Rockwell Collins Commercial Avionics Group == == "a Commercial company using Ada" == == Melbourne, FL email: gdp@mlb.cca.rockwell.com == ======================================================================