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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,da46977c58c329df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-01 06:28:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!news-in-sanjose!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C5AA5EE.D9C1FEDE@dont.tell> From: "A. Nonny Mouse" Reply-To: dont.ask@dont.tell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ... References: <4519e058.0201310714.650888e1@posting.google.com> <3C598CAA.7040801@home.com> <3C59FCD3.928144FB@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:27:58 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1012573694 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:28:14 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:28:14 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19471 Date: 2002-02-01T09:27:58-05:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > Unfortunately, it has changed for many DoD contractors. I have > been told that, even though Ada might be a better language, the > programmers don't want to hire on if they have to do Ada. They > would rather do C++ because it is better for their career. So, And there are people doing Ada, who are recommending Java to managers who don't know any better, not because it's good for the project, but because it's good for their r�sum�s (I'm not saying Java is always wrong, but sometimes it is, and I'm sure many of you have read completely bogus arguments supporting Java over Ada.) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau