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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/11
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Richard D Riehle wrote:
> 
>  There is another argument in favor of Ada that is beginning to
>  manifest itself in organizations converting to C++: employee
>  turnover.
> 
>  It seems that, once the Ada programmers are trained in C++ (we are now
>  doing some of that training), they are more able to present that skill
>  to other employers.  In fact, a large number of Ada programmers
>  who learn C++ register with a "brain-transplant specialist" (recruiter)
>  in search of greener pastures.  Then they need to be replaced.
> 

This is a morbid contention because it implies that Ada people are
"stuck" at their jobs.  It's also not 100% valid, as our own Ada shop
has sustained the loss of a number of our best Ada developers to *other*
Ada shops which hire them for huge dollars.  A couple of years ago (it
may still be true), good Ada programmers were getting tip-top dollars
for contracting.

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Stanley Allen
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