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From: robert@* <robert_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: 7 Oct 2001 14:03:07 -0700
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In article <Oe2w7.34294$jE3.3798156@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
"martin.m.dowie" says...
 
>The evidence from the UK is that Ada use is increasing. Check out articles
>in
>www.cw360.com and www.jobserve.co.uk has about 5 times as many jobs
>for Ada as it did around March/April 2000 (when I was last looking for
>work :-)
>

thanks for the links.

they all seem to be military projects, with the additional requirment of
having security clearance. 

The problem is that you have to jump over hoops to get to work in Ada, while
with Java and C/C++, jobs are so much easier to find, not military, and non
of this security clearance requirments on top of it.

Yes, Ada is a better language, but finding work in Java and C++ is so
much simpler and easier (and you do not have to work on a bomb to code in
them).

Untill Ada becomes more used in commerical places, it will never become
popular. I know many programmers who would code in Ada, but turned off
by the environment it is used in, and the rigidity of the whole Ada 
culture where it is used.