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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-08 12:36:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 8 Sep 2003 12:36:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.65.104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1063049808 15808 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2003 19:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Sep 2003 19:36:48 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42289 Date: 2003-09-08T19:36:48+00:00 List-Id: William J. Thomas wrote: > Software Engineers don't come cheap in America, they come cheap in places > like China and India. If you want to know what the software landscape is > going to be like in 10 (make that 7) years just ask those folks, their the > one's that are going to be coding it!!! Do you think that those software engineers in China and India will be cheap (and easily available in arbirary quantities) forever? Think about 7-10 years ahead. Don't forget some projects need quite long maintenance - and Ada is oriented mainly at those projects. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia