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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,40f73f60d2dd9ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!atl-c03.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Jobs References: <1121864187.299726.202470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1121864187.299726.202470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:28:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1121948912 209.165.23.197 (Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:28:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:28:32 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3719 Date: 2005-07-21T12:28:32+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton ======================================================================