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,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Stanley R. Allen" Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <36E98D60.4AE0A009@hso.link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454347317 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <7c7coa$nvt$4@plug.news.pipex.net> <1999Mar11.080820.1@eisner> <7c92hb$r8n@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <36E86FC0.C8EBDC5A@hso.link.com> <7cbo51$3r9@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > > I agree that not all Ada > programmers are not "stuck" at their jobs. Even though my thesis > may be slightly exaggerated, or skewed because of my small sample > size, the phenonemon I described actually does occur. > True enough. I remember consulting with a DoD contractor in Colorado which decided to drop Ada to train everyone in C++, and found that all of their freshly-trained programmers were ripe for headhunters; the long-distance company MCI was booming, their local-area offices were hiring, and could offer tremendous salary boosts to these developers. When they described this situation to me, I recommended that they use and train everyone in Ada to reduce turnover! (This was a number of years back, before it bacame clear that we were having a hard enough time keeping our own Ada people). -- Stanley Allen mailto:srallen@hti.com