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- From: Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd@step.polymtl.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc
- Subject: Re: A question of languages
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:52:38 -0500
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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- Ted Dennison wrote:
- > For the past 6 years running I have had NO trouble finding Ada
- > jobs. As a matter of fact, they tend to come looking for me. The
- > demand for Ada programmers may not seem so astronomical to an
- > outsider, but it FAR outstrips the supply. So this point actually
- > works AGAINST C++.
- >
- > (Ada pays better too)
-
- Yep. Also, I think that the people hiring Ada or M3 programmers are
- looking for more knowledge and an higher level of talent from their
- programmers (hence the unsatisfied demand and the higher pay). This is
- not the case with C or C++.
-
- The nature of many (if not most) C and C++ projects is such that they
- would hire anybody.
-
- So when a student says "I won't learn language X because I want a job."
- (where X is neither C nor C++) what he or she really means is "I'm not
- talented enough to compete in domains that use other languages than C or
- C++."
-
- ldd
-
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