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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-10 21:06:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:06:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:06:16 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.116 X-Trace: sv3-Lu1Ki7ltk+YL2asnM/nTb90nx4xeuqL5u3wDG4UMN+mhz0qecBZEUEvRO6EXt/WGYePt418eJg6HMvL!p8MZcau4pBiMBs4i4VyTe7y8elQ1lQEl4JTT/NE5FNcAqwiDt5KjjmCnma5ZyR3Nwgdc3yURgX97!5w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6966 Date: 2004-04-10T23:06:16-05:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > The economic question is not the relative numbers of C vs Ada > programmers, but their cost (including search costs to find them) vs their > productivity. If employers are now hiring C programmers, then their I wasn't addressing the paid software domain. I was talking about trying to compete in the free-software open-source arena. If the programmers have to be paid, then the issue of numbers is not as much of a problem. -- Wes Groleau "Ideas are more powerful than guns, We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?" -- Jozef Stalin