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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best*
Date: 1998/12/08
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Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <366C0197.49B15B12@spam.innocon.com> Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com> writes:

   > Why don't you read your Sunday paper, friend?  Check out the want ads.  MY
   > "statistical" survery tells me this: for every Ada job opening there are
   > literally - LITERALLY - dozens for Java and C++.  What statistical
   > sampling do I need other than this? 

   Let's see, I have worked with software engineers who didn't know
Ada, and they were productive in Ada before they knew enough about the
application to make serious changes to existing code.  (Literally, I
could take an Ada package spec and ask them to implement it, and any
discussion would be about data-types, real-time constraints, etc.)

   On the other hand, it takes six to nine months to bring someone up
to speed in C++, if you are lucky.

   So if I need an Ada software engineer, I'll talk about the
application domain in the ad.  If I need a C++ programmer, C++ will be
a requirement.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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