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From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/12
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kirk@*.*.com wrote in message <7ca1lq$4fm@drn.newsguy.com>...

>... With 15 years, Ada programmers are
>offered a lousy $50,000 a year in those defense contractors
>places...

While I don't know specifically what 15 year Ada programmers make, I do know
that *any* competent programmer with 15 years of experience will make a good
deal more than that, if simply by the expedient of learning or dusting off
another, more "commercial" language.  Since good experienced programmers can
migrate to new languages fairly easily there should never develop a large
gap between the pay scales of different languages.

Mike