Re: What to Do?

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

Honeywell may have picked up Ada from its defense related endeavors. (They
still make things like Ring Laser Gyros, etc., for the govt. don't they?) I
know that there are pockets of Ada usage in the commercial sector - how
could the compiler vendors stay alive if all they had were defense
contractors? My point was that while there are pockets of use in the
commercial side of things, it just isn't so widespread as to make Ada jobs
available in any county in the US. Whereas, if you look for programming
positions in C/C++ or Java or a few other things, you'll almost always find
at least *some* positions in just about any area you care to look.

As I said in the previous post, I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
I'd very much like to see Ada have enough market penetration that there was
at least one company in every county in the US using Ada. I think that
would be the "Critical Mass" point for the language.

MDC



Ted Dennison wrote:

> I actually had a job offer once for a commercial Ada job. It was with
> Honeywell (sp?), and most of their stuff was civil aviation. Since they
> told me that they had their own Ada compiler, which was also used by
> some other companies, I suspect they aren't the only ones in that
> industry using it.

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