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- From: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 20:44:09 GMT
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
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- Ramses Youhana (ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au) wrote:
- > Erik Naggum (erik@naggum.no) wrote:
- > > [Nasser Abbasi]
-
- > > | Any one looking at the market place sees C++ jobs all over with almost
- > > | no Ada commerical jobs. Other than Boeing 777 project, what else is
- > > | there? (commerical)
-
- > > are you looking at the market for employed or unemployed programmers?
-
- > > take into account that a programmer who says he knows C/C++ is generally
- > > lying, but one who says he knows Ada is generally honest. this means that
- > > you need to get *many* applicants for C/C++ jobs to find one you can hire.
-
- > How did you come up with this statement and what figures have you got to
- > support it? Anybody going for an Ada job can just as easily lie about their
- > knowledge of Ada programming as with C/C++. Maybe the employer can setup
- > a better interviewing process to filter out those who lie about their level
- > of knowledge and experience.
-
- It might be just an empirical statement. Nobody who's a wannabee and
- reads a couple of issues of PC magazine is going to go claim to know
- Ada, just because it's not as well known. C++ is everywhere, for better
- and worse.
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- The most common contact areas for Ada are academic classes and some
- very serious corporate installations.
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- > Ramses.
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