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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 08:56:40 GMT
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:42:08 +0100, "martin.m.dowie"
<martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>The evidence from the UK is that Ada use is increasing. Check out articles
>in
>www.cw360.com and www.jobserve.co.uk has about 5 times as many jobs
>for Ada as it did around March/April 2000 (when I was last looking for
>work :-)

Have you considered that perhaps there are simply 5 times more
agencies trying to find candidates for one job? If you look closely at
many of the Ada jobs on Jobserve they are for:

Farnborough:   BAE Systems
               IBM Global Services
Camberley:     Aerosystems International (AeI)
Frimley:       BAE Systems
               Easams
Portsmouth:    BAE Systems (including Waterlooville)
               DERA (QinetiQ?)
Wells:         Thales
Bristol:       BAE Systems
Borehamwood:   Easams
Stanmore:      BAE Systems
Hastings:      Computing Devices
Rochester:     BAE Systems
Wharton:       BAE Systems
Isle Of Wight: BAE Systems
New Malden:    Thales

So there are a few companies looking for Ada staff:

BAE Systems
Computing Devices
Thales
AeI
Easams (possibly now BAE)
DERA (possibly now QinetiQ)

A lot of the jobs available at these companies are jobs on (defence)
projects that have been running for a number of years, and on projects
that are just upgrades of current products. The evidence I have seen
is that there are very few, if any at all, new projects coming up that
are using Ada. This is one of the reasons I have 'deserted' to find a
job using a language that I believe has more of a future (well,
possibly - at least it's more likely to lead into other languages
based on this one that have a future).

It's unfortunate really but I don't really see a future in Ada,
although I would recommend learning it because it helps to enforce a
sense of discipline required for programming in teams.