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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
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In article <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov>,
  gjdodri@sandia.gov wrote:
> A few weeks ago someone in this newsgroup mentioned that
> Ada is a $100M industry.  If this number is reasonable,
> then assuming a loaded salary of $120K per year, there are
> only about 830 full time Ada developers.
>
> which had over 15,000 in attendance.  I also attended the
> SigAda conference in St Louis in the Fall of 1997, which
> had less than 400 in attendance.  I understand that the

So nearly %50 of all the Ada developers in the world went to St. Louis for
SigAda? I doubt it.

> its economy of use.  In fact, I am the local Ada evangelist
> and successfully convinced a group of 18 developers to use
> Ada on a new project.  This involved teaching a beginning

That's %2 you had on your project alone!

Somehow, I think your math isn't quite right. Either $100M isn't right, or the
extrapolation you made to # of developers is wrong.

T.E.D.

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