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Subject: Re: Can an amateur find an Ada job?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:27:28 +0100
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Le Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:38:25 +0100, Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> a  =

=C3=A9crit:

> In past years I used Ada 95 as an amateur.
>
> Recently I've lost a PHP programming job.
>
> Now after this I've applied to about 20 jobs (mostly related to PHP) a=
nd  =

> yet
> wait for answers to arrive. Maybe tomorrow I will start searching also=
  =

> for
> Perl jobs. I search for a part time telecommuting job.
>
> But now I thought, it would be more interesting to do Ada programming =
 =

> than
> PHP programming, and salary for an Ada programming I think would be  =

> greater.
>
> Does it make sense to re-read Ada Reference Manual to refresh my memor=
y  =

> and
> attempt to find an Ada job, taking into account that I have not even
> finished university degree?
>

Additionally to the different point of views already provided:

You may also be convinced by yourself of the value Ada (and some others =
 =

things like formal methods) adds to software quality (implicitly, useful=
  =

software) and don't only wait for someone telling you what would be usef=
ul  =

to do and also attempt to do it yourself.

In case you don't already know, unlike the Apple software store which is=
  =

restricted to C and Objective=E2=80=91C applications, the Ubuntu softwar=
e store  =

allows anything supported by GCC, which includes=E2=80=A6 Ada. You still=
 may have  =

to restrict yourself to what's well supported by the Ada compiler which =
 =

comes with the targeted Ubuntu version (a common LTS at the time of  =

writing, is Ubuntu 12.04, and it did not fully supports Ada 2012 the las=
t  =

time I tried).

Good luck.


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity