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From: perez@oldcolo.com (Carlos Perez)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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Date: 25 Nov 1994 18:32:28 GMT
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James Hopper (hopperj@dayton.saic.com) wrote:
: They were more interested in hiring people who
: understood mature development processes than in hiring coders
: who could hack out C.  This feedback has been passed back
: a lot from my contacts in the commercial world. 

My experience has been mixed.  Most good software development organization
understand that having Ada experience is a positive but many other
organizations think that Ada is some specialized language like Jovial.
Also Ada is associated with the "US military" and so "can't be appropriate"
for commercial use.  I hope someday that Ada will be regarded like 
TCP/IP and recognized as a military invention useful to the commercial world
in a broad way.

I ended up having to put the following paragraph in my resume to "educate"
recruiters on Ada: 

  (Ada is a modern software engineering language supporting object-oriented
  principles such as information hiding, type inheritance, strong typing,
  templates, exception handling, and process concurrency) 

I didn't like using words like "templates" but my experience has been
that most managers are unfamiliar with Ada, much less generics.

: best jim

regards,
-- Carlos