Re: employment with ada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

DPH wrote:
> Any given Ada-speaking-only SW Engineer could and should be concerned
> about:
> 
> 1) Getting laid off in spite of the hot project - "stuff" can happen.
> 
> 2) Wanting the freedom to decide they don't want to work at the same
> place their whole career, and maybe live in some other state besides
> Texas or Georgia or wherever.
> 
> 3) Maybe wanting to not get underpaid because the employer knows you
> don't have much of an option to go anywhere else because this, at 10
> years later, is the only Ada island, or maybe one of the 3 remaining
> Ada islands (and the other 2 are in places where it goes down to 38
> below zero in the winter) in the country.
> 
> 4) Maybe just plain getting tired of Ada programming but not being
> able to leave with the narrow skillset.

Well, this is valid for any profession and set of skills. You need to
keep up with the "progress".

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/