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- From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 23:20:10 GMT
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- ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) wrote:
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- >Since I posted the above, I've been flamed by every man and his dog. The comment
- >was based on something I was told at UNI by one of the lecturers, and not out of
- >my own experience. I realise it was a stupid comment
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- Who is this so-called 'lecturer'? I phart in his general direction, his Father was a
- Hamster, and his Mother smelt of Elderberries!
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- > Can anyone suggest any good books on it (one that reasonably priced) and possibly a good > compiler for a PC.
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- 1. Books - I use Barnes - 'Programming in Ada' - full of examples. I used the 1st edition to
- teach students in 1983, the German edition in 1992 in Bremen, and still have a copy, which I
- refer to even now.
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- 2. Compilers - GNU, available free. The Walnut Creek CD Rom set for AusD 60 is an excellent
- buy too. For production work, I use the ex-Alsys compiler now made by Thomson, but this is
- AusD 150. For learning, the GNU compiler is more than adequate.
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- >Also, according to many of the postings, I'm being given the impression that there
- >are plenty of engineering jobs for Ada. I've been looking in the job ads (in Sydney,
- >Australia) and I can't seem to find many Ada jobs (as compared with C and C/C++ jobs)
- >for engineers. I'm interested to know where these jobs are.
-
- Not in Australia. Germany - heaps. Switzerland - lots. USA - quite a few, BUT you generally
- need US citizenship. But in Oz, there's the Australian Submarine Corp in Adelaide,
- Transfield shipbuilding in Melbourne, but not a lot in Sydney. Wormald Security and a few
- others. Even less in Canberra. I believe several banks have converted/are converting their
- really sensitive DP parts to Ada 83 for security reasons. Westpac comes to mind.
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