From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,59f7ca851a394aa3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Subject: Re: Reasons NOT To Choose Ada Date: 1996/11/16 Message-ID: <56krau$69q@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196982087 references: <01bbd2c9$f8707680$14080c26@cat> organization: La Calandre Infortunee newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Boaz Chow (boaz@pipeline.com) wrote: 5.1. Can't feed my family with Ada. look at the newspaper, they all want Visual Basic programmers for writting windows95 program. My friend gradurated from an university. He had to go buy a book called "TEACH YOURSELVES VISUAL BASIC IN 21 DAYS" for the job he was offered right after he was out of school. (He was using NeXT Step from his school) Your friend should be able to find a better job than that, or he shouldn't have gone to University. Most companies produce lousy software that doesn't even come close to work as it should. Most projects are way behind on schedule, cost much more than calculated and only deliver a partially finished product. Some companies spend much time on planning, requirements analysis, specification and *systematically* implementing a system, leading to a high quality product that is delivered on time for the calculated costs. The difference is called Software Engeneering and is something that is taught at good universities. You'll learn that some tools help software engineers by doing their jobs and some only get in the way, although "programmers" might like the tool. When your friend has a good software engineering background, it is very easy for him to find a job at one of the companies in the second group. Then it is more likely for him to be involved in a project using Ada as implementation language than in a project using Visual Basic. -- E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl