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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< Date: 1999/02/12 Message-ID: <36C4901C.6AA6A329@Maths.UniNe.CH>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 443737511 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2036B.D2B4B148@pwfl.com> <36C24646.804BC44E@stny.lrun.com> <79tk4j$cqf@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2E425.D4A791E9@hercii.mar.lmco.com> <79urm0$f1o@drn.newsguy.com> <7a1e6b$68e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7a1m6c$5i3@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > You want us to believe that Ada programmers make as well or even better than > C/C++/Java/VB programmers, when at the same time there is hardly any > positions open for Ada programmers and the few that are open are in > insignificant amount compared to the rest, this makes it a little > hard to understand your argument. What's contradictory between the ideas (1) "Ada programmers make as well or even better than C/C++/Java/VB programmers" and (2) "there is hardly any positions open for Ada programmers and the few that are open are in insignificant amount compared to the rest" ? If would be contradictory if there would be a link between the efficiency of a programming language and the its selection for IT projects. In fact this selection is driven by everything but efficiency, mainly: a) crowd effect, rumors, <> b) conservatism, fear of abstraction at expense of portability c) compatibility with existing sources, no language mixtures d) availability of commercial tools, which depends heavily on a) - d) ! You have a nice feedback that's not converging to quality or efficience... -- Gautier -------- Homepage: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Montmollin.html Software: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Gaut_FTP.htm.