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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/31 Message-ID: <8c1t3l$dkp1@ftp.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604727746 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E240D1.DB36C983@quadruscorp.com> <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com> <8bu4ek$412$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8bul06$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <38E396E7.45941282@quadruscorp.com> <38E3766C.3BC9B360@lmtas.lmco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Organization: Kv�rner Group IT Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gary Scott wrote: >My company probably writes as much or more Ada code as any other. We >also write a lot of stuff with Visual Fortran (95). But I can tell you >that Ada is losing the battle to C++ (in those embedded processor >domains) while Fortran plods along at about the same level. The >reason? Getting huge quantities of "experienced" C<++> newhires is >easier than with Ada. That may change within a few years. There is a number of universities that have started to use Ada. There is a steady increase in the number of people which nows and loves the language. If a company wants Ada productivity, all it needs to do is to find which universities which uses ada and recruit there. Simple! Greetings,