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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: is ada dead?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:12:41 +0100
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I've been doing a little monitoring off jobs on
www.jobserve.co.uk and Ada is the only language
in my sample showing any signs of _increased_
use of the last 6 weeks!

Java   down ~25%
C++    down ~17%
COBOL  down ~10%

C#     static
Pascal static

Ada95  up   ~33%

This follows the trend spotted by Computer Weekly
in their quarterly job review (Ada up by
40+%/40+%/25%+ in the last 3 quarters - and the
only language to show 3 consecutive quarters of
growth).

Obviously C++/Java are starting from a much larger
base but COBOL is now only twice as popular as Ada
(in the job advert stake anyway).

I haven't done any "proper" analysis - just counted
the ads, but my assumptions are as invalid for one
language as they are for any other, so I would hope
that the trend is really following what is happening
out there in the UK adverts! :-)

If anyone is interested I can keep the newsgroup
posted as to how this sampling is going.

Perhaps the compiler vendors could chips in with
indications of how they see the market going? ;-)

As for defence only, it was recently reported (CW
again?) that 1/3 of new Ada jobs are in telecoms...

tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> is ada dead?
> is it only used in department of defense?
> is it easy/hard to learn? wil it die soon?