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- From: Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@gelac.lasc.lockheed.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc
- Subject: Re: A question of languages
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 14:21:08 GMT
- Organization: Lockheed Martin
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- nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) wrote:
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- >
- >For people who are interested in programming languages for the sake
- >of just programming languages, we can talk all day long how much Ada
- >is better than C/C++, but for the other 99% of the people, who leave
- >colleges and want to get a job to pay the rent, or who have family to
- >support, they see the market is taken over by C++, and see security
- >in working/learning C++ (even though they might know it is not as good
- >as Ada) so that is what they will learn and use.
- >
-
- While there are plenty of C++ jobs, there are also more than plenty of C/C++
- programmers available for them so the salaries are often not that good.
- There are also quite a few Ada jobs (even outside the so-called mandated
- world) and a considerably smaller number of programmers available and thus
- rather nice salaries generally. The availability of jobs is really not an
- issue here although many C people want to make it one to support their
- choice. A good, preferably, multilingual software engineer should not have
- a problem finding good jobs in either C++ or Ada (or many other languages for
- that matter). But to say that the career aspects for Ada is poor is just
- plain wrong. While many people may not know how to go about finding good Ada
- jobs, that doesn't mean they are not there. In fact I know of at least one
- terrible Ada programmer who is making around $100K per year - without even
- having a degree! In any case, the jobs are there and once you realize that
- you can make a comfortable living either way, the decision becomes one based
- on the technical merits and what you enjoy (happiness on the job is an
- important factor also - at least to me).
-
- P.S. When I posted on this subject once before, one person emailed me that
- he was making $200K doing C so perhaps there are some exceptions to the lower
- salaries for C/C++ but (assuming this was true) I think it was definitely
- an exception. If that becomes common, I might learn to like C :-)
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