Ada usage up?

Ada usage up?

[Bobby D. Bryant]

An article on The Register
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12879.html) discusses an IT
skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey.  (It
does not give enough information to judge whether this might be a
statistical fluke.)

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

Re: Ada usage up?

[Georg Bauhaus]

Bobby D. Bryant (bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
: skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
: Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey.

at least one university here, broadening it's offerings in CS,
coupled with electrical engeneering, has chosen Ada as official
teaching language. :)

Re: Ada usage up?

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> at least one university here, broadening it's offerings in CS,
> coupled with electrical engeneering,
> has chosen Ada as official teaching language. :)

Yisterday, I couldn't even spell engeneer.  T'day, I are one.

Re: Ada usage up?

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu>, "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> An article on The Register
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12879.html) discusses an IT
> skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
> Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey.  (It
> does not give enough information to judge whether this might be a
> statistical fluke.)

I infer from the page that their methodology is "mentions in ads".
There is not enough space in comp.lang.ada :-) to discuss fully
all the ways that can be non-representative.

Demand for Ada may very well be up, but I would not look to The Register
for proof.  I would trust them to have gotten the ad count correct, and
to some extent ad count is important in and of itself.

Re: Ada usage up?

[Gary Scott]

It would be my impression that aerospace use of Ada is headed downward. 
Nearly every new development is in C or C++.  This does not mean,
however, that Ada will not continue being used quite extensively for
quite some time to come.  Some significant products will continue with
Ada for at least 15 years (projected product or product variant life
span).

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <39ABB53E.E0F7B04A@mail.utexas.edu>, "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> > An article on The Register
> > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12879.html) discusses an IT
> > skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
> > Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey.  (It
> > does not give enough information to judge whether this might be a
> > statistical fluke.)
> 
> I infer from the page that their methodology is "mentions in ads".
> There is not enough space in comp.lang.ada :-) to discuss fully
> all the ways that can be non-representative.
> 
> Demand for Ada may very well be up, but I would not look to The Register
> for proof.  I would trust them to have gotten the ad count correct, and
> to some extent ad count is important in and of itself.

Re: Ada usage up?

[John McCabe]

"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>An article on The Register
>(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12879.html) discusses an IT
>skill-demand survey in the UK, and mentions in passing that demand for
>Ada is up 44%, apparently with reference to last year's survey.  (It
>does not give enough information to judge whether this might be a
>statistical fluke.)

From someone *in* the UK, there has recently been quite a few
vacancies I've seen where Ada is mentioned as a 'useful', but not
'must have' skill. It is clear that a number of places are now
considering Ada as a useful language to provide a good background in
O-O, which should ease any cross-training into C++ and Java. There
also appears to be an increase in demand for Ada in the financial
markets in London where, in some areas as far as I can tell, VAX
Pascal had a stronghold.



Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>