Re: employment with ada

["William J. Thomsa" <wjthomas@wcvt.com>]

> 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.
>
> Dave Head

Its not LMCO's job to worry about the marketability of their programming
talent. Its the programmers responsibility to keep themselves up to date
with the latest craze (like XML, C#), and to keep themselves marketable
(like I have by learning all of those things at home, on my own time).

It's LMCO's job to provide the country with the best weapon systems in the
world.

The reasons they did not select Ada are bogus, they should just come right
out and tell everyone that its due to program managements short sightedness
and be done with it.

WJT