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Marin David Condic wrote:

 > To some extent, you're preaching to the choir. I agree that what is 
really
 > important is not the language or toolsets you use, but your 
abilities as an
 > engineer. But there is the other side of the coin. All professions
 > specialize to some extent and just as a doctor who specialized in 
gynocology
 > might have a hard time switching to proctology and beginning to 
work in an
 > entirely new field, so is it true that a programmer who has 
specialized in
 > Ada and some Ada toolset might have a bit of work making the 
transition to
 > some other language/toolset/problem domain. And even if one 
dismisses this
 > as not that big a deal, there's still this nasty problem called 
"Reality".
 > Job postings try to look for very specific skills and hiring managers
 > generally don't want to consider someone unless they match their job
 > description very closely. The fact that you can adapt and don't 
think that
 > this is a big deal doesn't matter because the people making those 
decisions
 > *do* think its a big deal. Life is often not fair, eh?


I find that programmers specialized in other programming
languages/toolsets have strong resistance against Ada and require more
effort to learn Ada. OTOH, programmers specialized in Ada
and Ada toolsets have the abilities making transition to some other
languages/toolsets with little effort.

Therefore, I would suggest Universities to teach Ada as the first
language. Ada can help students to understand programming languages,

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