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From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net>...
> Michael Card wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering why it is perceived as undesirable to train new
> > programmers in Ada? Certainly hiring an experienced S/W engineer who
> > has only done C++ or Java, for example, would not require a significant
> > additional investment to train them in Ada? If teh language really
> > offers benefits, wouldn't those benefits more than offset the
> > relatively small cost of buying 2-3 weeks of intense Ada training for
> > the programmers?
> 
> 
> I agree. I have found good C++ programmers to be trainable.
> I watched one pick up the basics of Ada in about 2 weeks with the
> help of "Ada as a Second Language". He was using the Aonix
> compiler and wanted to use the latest Visual Studio for his IDE.
> No problem. He simply customized Visual Studio and proceded to
> happily program in Ada. He was amused to discover that the Aonix
> compiler worked better with the Microsoft debugger than did
> Visual C++. He found he was able to display more detailed information
> about arrays when using Aonix.
> 
> Jim Rogers


One of my colleague holds the record of 8 days to pick up the basics of Ada. :)