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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 07:45:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:40:06 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9pv288$3dc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3bc16680.2581922@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1002638408 3500 136.170.200.133 (9 Oct 2001 14:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Oct 2001 14:40:08 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14020 Date: 2001-10-09T14:40:08+00:00 List-Id: Well, there are certainly lots of us who have to use other languages in order to make a living, but that doesn't mean that we can't be working towards building a better future for Ada. Don't "desert" the cause! :-) Let's find some ways of moving the mission forward and perhaps creating a better market out there for Ada developers. That way we can all be doing jobs we enjoy rather than just jobs we tolerate. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "John McCabe" wrote in message news:3bc16680.2581922@news.demon.co.uk... > > A lot of the jobs available at these companies are jobs on (defence) > projects that have been running for a number of years, and on projects > that are just upgrades of current products. The evidence I have seen > is that there are very few, if any at all, new projects coming up that > are using Ada. This is one of the reasons I have 'deserted' to find a > job using a language that I believe has more of a future (well, > possibly - at least it's more likely to lead into other languages > based on this one that have a future). > > It's unfortunate really but I don't really see a future in Ada, > although I would recommend learning it because it helps to enforce a > sense of discipline required for programming in teams. > >