Re: ADA 95 - can anyone recommend any training courses

["Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>]

HollymaN wrote:
> 
> Come on ,Come on man, you can't ignore java nowdays it's the next big
> thing,if you are so sure that ada is one hell of a language just answer this
> :why java developpment is growing that and ada vanishing in the other
> way.just look at the amzing number of java tools compared with ada ones.Java
> is like real combat and ada like pro wrestling (it doesn't work in relal
> life (for finding a job (yeah yeah i know there's 3 or may 6 ada jobs
> outhere))).i know about rational tools.but the support sucks (there's not
> enough market for a decent support) they re giving object ada for free.
> 
> be realistic(unless you work on a company developping somme kind of ada
> tools to sell)
> 

I work on the space station training simulator along with about
300 other engineers. This is a real system, or at least a
simulated real system, or is that a simulation of a real system.
Anyway, my project may be prowrestling to you, but the real deal
is just up the street at Boeing and NASA where the real space 
station is also being done in Ada. NASA recognizes that the 
simulation used for training is just as important as the real 
software in the station. So I guess we are "real combat" after all!
All I read about Java are toys and demos. Small fry systems
in an ocean of sharks and whales.

You can't get more real than software running systems and hardware 
in the life-threatening, vacumn waiting to kill ya, radiation
waiting to kill ya, space debris waiting to kill ya, if something 
goes wrong we're probably dead meat reality of manned space operations!
Its almost as real simulating it, at least as far as level of
effort and degree of detail.

I wrote Ada for the Air Force as well as the commerical world
before coming here along with Fortran and C. I'd rather be working 
on something important like I am now than some commercial sugar-coated 
donut hole kind of confection software. Those that know do the really
important stuff in Ada. If you want to work on this kind
of stuff, other posts in this thread point you to job
hunting resources. If not, then more power to you on your
road to Java. Be well!

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"