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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-03 01:18:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.worldonline.be!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: 03 Apr 2004 11:21:24 +0200 Organization: Worldonline Belgium Sender: lbrenta@deuteronomy Message-ID: <87n05tzaaz.fsf@insalien.org> References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-134-242-121.lindthout.goplus.fastdsl.tiscali.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.worldonline.be 1080983935 26657 83.134.242.121 (3 Apr 2004 09:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldonline.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:18:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6714 Date: 2004-04-03T11:21:24+02:00 List-Id: "Beth Bruzan" writes: > What is comes down to, for me, is the ease of finding a job in any > specific location. This allows me to live where I want, when I > want. The current call for Java is quite large, so I tend to work > in Java. I think this is the problem of most would-be professional Ada programmers. It took me 8 months to find myself an Ada job, and it's 100 km from home so I commute by train now. But I just could not stand Java programmers anymore. I may be a bit harsh in saying this, but I think that it is possible to tell them apart because of their amateurishness and closed-mindedness. > In short, I would say that if it cannot be done in Ada, there is a > good chance that it SHOULDN'T be done at all. I would rephase this, for myself, as: it you don't want it to be done in Ada, Eiffel or Modula-3, then I don't want to do it at all; find somebody else for the job. I don't want to work with amateurs anymore, I want to work with software engineers. > BTW Thank you again Ludovic. :) -- Ludovic Brenta.