Re: Ada Jobs

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I'd suggest that generating lots of open source Ada projects is a rather 
circuitous route to more Ada jobs. Its rather uncertain that there is 
any direct correlation between lines of open source code available in a 
language and jobs using that language. At best, that could take a long 
time before it had the desired effect.

Much more likely to create Ada jobs is to create and market some kind of 
product in which Ada is a factor. If a guy builds a Furby and programs 
it in Ada and gets a market going for Furbys, he hires more Ada 
programmers. Even if its an "internal product" - something used by your 
company in its critical processes - it creates jobs. The point is that 
if you have numerous people using some end product that they consider 
valuable, they come up with the money to further its development - and 
that makes jobs. It doesn't really matter if the product has open source 
code or extremely proprietary code. What matters is that it is a 
_Product_ that is _Useful_ and for which people will exchange _Money_. 
Otherwise, its all just interesting academics that will never produce a 
job for anyone.

MDC


steve wrote:
> Only hope for more Ada jobs is to have more open source Ada projects
> start.
> 
> This will make Ada become popular again, and will get more people
> interested in it, and eventually this will carry over to commerical
> work.


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