Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)

[bl884@freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU (Wes Groleau)]

In a previous article, kevq@banana.demon.co.uk (Kevin F. Quinn) says:
>I don't know about the US, but in Europe, and especially in the UK,
>Ada is booming.  There is far more Ada work about than there are
>people to do it.  

Tell them to fax their job ads to me - my company is laying off about
a hundred a month

>Of course, most PC software is still developed in the old
>hack-and-slash method.  You won't see them using Ada.  They'll use
>C++, but only because they can write C with it :->

I recently read a book on Object-Oriented Programming, thinking I was
going to learn some really hot techniques.  Instead, page after page I
kept thinking "I've always done it this way!"  Too many programmers still
think implementation rather than abstraction--just because Ada folks don't
use the same jargon as the OOP folks doesn't mean they don't get the same
benefits.  C++ strikes me as an attempt to get some of the benefits of
Ada-83 without giving up your dearly prized ability to ensure that
your manager won't have a clue what your code means.