Re: Non-defense Ada applications - answering several requests

[world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian)]

Mike,
	I have a suggestion for you.  Go thru the help wanted ads looking
for companies hiring Ada programmers.  Usually from the job description
you can tell what the company is doing with Ada.  In theory, this method
should be quite effective in finding non-Mandated applications.  Hiring
patterns have long been an important indicator of corporate behavior for
a variety of business practices.  They might not say publicly what they
are doing, but they have to hire people to do the stuff, and their hiring
ads must make sure the employee's language background matches the project.

   But Mike, and Lloyd, and all you other true believers of Ada, if you
make such a detailed survey, you will find the ratio of C/C++ to Ada jobs
to be fifty to one.  Which is probably a measure of Ada use in the
non-Mandated world.  If you make the survey.  If you care.





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