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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:45:44 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID: <slrnm4ulto.nrc.lithiumcat@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu>
References: <a510f410-56ea-46a6-9f3c-021a2389b936@googlegroups.com>
 <f4e05c1d-e52e-44f1-84e1-3814e526c469@googlegroups.com>
 <m2jvqm$qpc$2@dont-email.me>
 <dfa977d6-1458-4d8a-b226-15a759e321d6@googlegroups.com>
 <220f97ab-9aa2-4961-b140-2b271c3ab99a@googlegroups.com>
Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:45:44 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org;
 posting-host="76a49b86bc3e16725b7cfca3d85cb4c8";
	logging-data="29253"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";
	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18P0twWjqY/ytHJ5SBUcI98"
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:lpqqhxse90Qd+kyYg+w5NbvjIUE=
Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22839
Date: 2014-10-28T08:45:44+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 2014-10-27, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I think Bob is right that it shouldn't make a difference--a
>> competent programmer should be able to switch to a new language (or
>> OS or platform or toolset) fairly easily.
>
> Except that very few will want to.
>
> The problem is - once you are competent you are recognized as a senior
> or expert and this recognition has a value - both in terms of peer
> relations and on the job market. Why would such a person "switch" to
> some other language? To become a novice again? To write in his CV that
> instead of having (let's say) 8 years of Java experience, he has only
> 1 year in Ada? And what is the value of such CV if nobody is looking
> for Ada programmers anyway? Isn't it better to have N+1 years of Java
> experience instead?

And I feel the problem is even worse after the switch, but maybe I'm
based by currently living through it.

I switched years ago, but it isn't worth much without Ada-related job
openings. And on top of that I will have to live through the frustration
of using unhelpful tools and not-so-readable languages when I broaden my
search (which will happen as soon as I finish accepting that said
frustration is unavoidable).

I wonder whether it would be easier to bear if I gave up Ada in my free
time too, and bury it with all reliability wishes in some remote place
of my mind.