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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Nasser Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/22 Message-ID: <5r445r$8au@drn.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258345372 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> <33D416AA.4622C3C8@kaiwan.com> Organization: None Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , >> Its just that if you hire someone and he has to learn a new language - >> well that is additional cost vs hiring someone who already knows it. > >Yes, it is easy to hire a C/C++/Java 1 day wonder. And cheaply too. >Someone who was flipping burgers a week before, got C/C++/Java for >dummies or C/C++/Java in 5 days and is, voila', now a programmer who >"knows" it. > I am not sure about the "cheap" part. Java programmers with less than one year exp. can ask for $80-$100/hr, and many get close to that. It is the latest fashion as you know, even though many might have no clue about design and software engineering, but no one cares, since the ones hiring most likely also have no clue. As far as the pay rate for C++ vs. Ada, I notice that C/C++ programmers make more than Ada programmers. you see, goverment and defense companies salaries (which is where Ada is used in the US at least) are lower than private/commerical compnaies. > >Here's my take: If you want to use Ada - use it. Don't worry about >whether it's going "to be around" or something. That's not an issue. >If you don't want to use it, don't. > Agree. good advice. one should not always follow the crowd, if we all did, then we'll probably be still cooking our food over a fire under open sky in some forest somewhere. (humm.. come to think of it, that does not sound that bad :) Nasser