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: 103376,3b98a6d739306a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: ada in australia, to the mystery emailer Date: 1999/11/15 Message-ID: <382F6771.34BC9AAA@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 548654589 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <382E91FF.621BB2DB@interact.net.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 942630759 203.35.118.1 (Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:52:39 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:52:39 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: G wrote: > > Someone asked me about ada in australia > > Answer is, I have no idea. Going from the newspapers and the > advertisements for jobs in IT sections - I have not seen Ada mentioned > even once. Maybe you just didn't look hard enough amongst the sea of Visual C++ and and Visual basic ads. The Sydney Morning Herald's job search page, http://www.itjobs.fairfax.com.au/ finds 19 Ada jobs. Some of these will be duplicates at different agencies, and some are looking for C/C++ programmers whith Ada awareness. That still leaves maybe a half dozen jobs that you can apply for today. Of course, searching for other languages finds a lot more jobs: C++ :1095 Java : 584 Basic : 449 Perl : 230 COBOL : 182 Ada : 19 Fortran : 3 At least we don't get the wooden spoon! The press simply isn't interested in Ada. When the Collins submarine software had performance problems, the press blamed the hardware, there was no mention of the language used (presumably Ada). If a journo saw the word Ada, they probably didn't know what it was. On the other hand, when the stock exchange implemented a new system in C++ there was a huge write up about what they'd done to eliminate all those pesky memory leaks that can't be tolerated in a 24x7 system. I suspect that particular article was sponsored by a tools vendor. Cheers Geoff