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From: kirk@*.*.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/11
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Date: 1999-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <36E86FC0.C8EBDC5A@hso.link.com>, "Stanley says...
>
 
..
>Ada shops which hire them for huge dollars.  A couple of years ago (it
>may still be true), good Ada programmers were getting tip-top dollars
>for contracting.
 
Those must be some ultra-secrete Ada programming positions, 
since from what one sees out there in the public, Ada jobs 
are the lowest paying of all. Even a VB programmer makes more
than an Ada programmer. With 15 years, Ada programmers are 
offered a lousy $50,000 a year in those defense contractors
places, while a fresh college grad with a 2 months visual-anything, 
can easily earn more than that at any run-of-the-mill commercial shop.

So, I have no clue what do people talk about when they say 
that Ada programmers make top dollars. If they were, you'll find
people jumping on Ada, but people are jumping on Java 
and visual-*. 

Kirk.