Re: Future with Ada

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 01-12-19 at 16:33 Mr.Caffiene wrote:

>I understand your reasoning here, however I get the impression (although I
>could be mistaken) that you beleive money is always the primary motivating
>factor for software development.
>I disagree strongly. For several reasons...
>
>1. I develope software because I enjoy it. Ada95 has made this process
>even more enjoyable because it cuts down on the number of hoops I have to
>jump through in order to get a piece of software just right. In many cases
>I can actually track and prove a procedure from start to finish.

I'm with you here, with a little exception - some money for living must
come from somewhere. After 4 years of writting in C/C++ I suddenly
switched to Ada, just after I saw this language. Now, if I need a
program for a laboratory I do it in Ada (no need to write why :-)).
But at work, there is C++, and from time to time I have to look at
somebody's code, because it is not working as it should. And the
horror begins (what was his intent here, why like this and not like
that, etc.) Or when sometimes, when it comes to extending the software.
I don't want to say that everything in C++ is automatically bad, and in
Ada is good. It is possible to write bad Ada programs and good C++
programs.
I still consider myself as an Ada-newbie, but getting familiar with
the code, I do not have much trouble to read the code and understand
what it does. That is nice - great support for reusability, modifications,
adding own stuff.
I used to be somebody like C-fanatic (now I'm not ;-)) . I liked to
write in C/C++ (I still like).  But I enjoy much more when writting in Ada.
And that was why I started this thread - if to work as a programmer,
why not in Ada? And the main qustion was - how do companies look at
inexperienced (professionally) Ada programmer...

-Mike-
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