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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Corey Ashford Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <36E6C15A.1B77D19C@rocketmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 453493142 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <7c6cu6$3o3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Rational Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > In article <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov>, > gjdodri@sandia.gov wrote: > > A few weeks ago someone in this newsgroup mentioned that > > Ada is a $100M industry. If this number is reasonable, > > then assuming a loaded salary of $120K per year, there are > > only about 830 full time Ada developers. > > > > which had over 15,000 in attendance. I also attended the > > SigAda conference in St Louis in the Fall of 1997, which > > had less than 400 in attendance. I understand that the > > So nearly %50 of all the Ada developers in the world went to St. Louis for > SigAda? I doubt it. > > > its economy of use. In fact, I am the local Ada evangelist > > and successfully convinced a group of 18 developers to use > > Ada on a new project. This involved teaching a beginning > > That's %2 you had on your project alone! > > Somehow, I think your math isn't quite right. Either $100M isn't right, or the > extrapolation you made to # of developers is wrong. > > T.E.D. > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own Perhaps the $100M figure comes from the amount of money spent on tools per year, not on the salaries of those who use the tools. - Corey