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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: What to Do?
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 10:24:41 -0500
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I hear tell that there are commercial operations that use Ada. However, I
have never personally run into one or seen an ad in a job posting somewhere
looking for Ada experience that wasn't in some way connected to the DoD. I
would be *very* happy to be proven wrong on this repeatedly. :-)

Ada is a great language, but it just doesn't seem to have met with the same
commercial success as some other languages. I really wish it would, but I
think that without some major institutional sponsorship, it will have a hard
time doing so. Part of the problem may be tools, but certainly a big part of
the problem is that there isn't a Sun or a Microsoft pushing the language.
When the DoD stopped pushing Ada, lots of defense contractors bailed out of
it fast - needing Ada programmers mostly for maintaining legacy systems.

Any ideas who might make a good sponsor for Ada? Maybe we could lobby
them???

MDC

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Admittedly, every job I've worked was DoD. But I don't see why that
> should be a problem for anyone. Even if you have moral qualms about
> building weaponry, the DoD does a *lot* more than just that. I don't
> think I've worked on an actual weapon once in my 13 years of doing this.
> I've done NASA work, COMSEC (encryption devices), naval engine
> controllers, and various simulators. Plus I've noticed that the large
> DoD contractors tend to be a lot better about hiring and promoting women
> and minorities than the smaller commercial-oriented houses. (Just my
> unscientific observation there, YMMV)

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