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!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: F-22 ADA Programming Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:13:25 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1414368787 8541 192.74.137.71 (27 Oct 2014 00:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:13:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z8RGTRXms34/OgRhb9DBZFjrDcY= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22794 Date: 2014-10-26T20:13:25-04:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > "Lack of Ada developers" is also a false complaint. Here on c.l.a we all know > that there are Ada developers looking for Ada work and unable to find it. We > also know that teaching Ada to a good developer is a cost-saving > exercise. Well said. If I'm in charge of a project to be done in ANY language, I'd rather hire competent programmers and teach them that language, rather than hire programmers who know (only) that language. Ada isn't the easiest language to learn, but it's not THAT hard. - Bob