Something doesn't compute here (was Re: How many different processors do you use?)

[David95037@spammenot.com (David Kristola)]

In article 1@nnrp1.deja.com, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> () writes:
>In article <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>  muddy_buddy@my-deja.com wrote:

{snip}

>> 6. All of the above has created a situlation, where staffing
>> Ada programmers is very, very difficult.
>
>No, not so difficult.
>
>> Many companies have given up and switched back to C/C++
>> including mine.
>
>Some have, some haven't.
>
>> This problem was made much worst by the current engineering
>> market, where people need and want to be able to move often.
>> Knowing Ada is not a big plus outside defense
>> and a few related fields.
>
>Let me get this right. On the one hand it is impossible to find
>Ada programmers, on the other hand knowing Ada is not a valuable
>job skill. SOmething doesn't compute here :-)

IMO, there seem to be two factors moving companies and people
away from Ada:

1. Companies don't want to train people (it costs money).
2. Ada knowledgeable software engineers are rare and therefore
expensive, and companies would rather have a cheap workforce.

While it is most likely true that experienced people working
with the support of a language like Ada can probably out
produce (per their cost) entry level <fill in popular language
name> coders, this does not seem to be taken as pertinent where
the decisions are made.

Welcome to the race for the bottom (line).

--djk, keeper of arcane lore & trivial fluff
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