Re: employment with ada

["Alex Gibson" <alxx@ihug.com.au>]

"DPH" <rally2xs@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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> On 1 May 2003 17:36:30 -0700, crebralfix@angelfire.com (tom) wrote:

>
> I've just returned from the Software Technology Conference, a large
> conference and trade show for DoD types, held annually in Salt Lake
> City.  What I saw there leads me to say this:
>
> While Ada is truely a superior language, I believe you should rethink
> getting into it on anything above a hobby basis.
>
> At the conference, one of the 40 minute talks was given by Lockheed
> Martin on the Fate of Ada in the Joint Strike Fighter project.
>
> Starting out by saying that they are all personally Ada zealots, and
> strongly believe the langauge to be superior to anything else around,
> the company was forced, by business realities, to do their safety
> critical software in the Joint Strike Fighter in a safety critical
> subset of C.
>
> The safety critical subset of C is C with 172 restrictions, augmented
> by a source code analyzer to look out for problems.
>
> Why give up on Ada?  They actually did a study - this isn't just
> someone's personal preference or prejudice.  They found:
>
> 1) No college in this country is teaching Ada.  There may be some
> qualifiers on that that I don't remember, such as "as a major portion
> of their program", or something like that, but in short there isn't a
> source of new Ada programmers, nor is there likely to be.
>

Okay I'm not in the US but
the university I'm at still teaches Ada.
Mostly to graduate students.
http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/CurrentStudents/Postgraduate/postgraduate_subject_descriptions/49212.html
http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/CurrentStudents/Postgraduate/postgraduate_subject_descriptions/49234.html
http://www.uts.edu.au/div/publications/subjects/49234.html

Alex