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From: muaddib@digibank.it (Enrico A.)
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Subject: Re: Ada?
Date: 27 Feb 2002 07:26:13 -0800
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Ciao,
 
>but getting a
> job programming in Ada is relatively difficult, even in the US (and
> reportedly near impossible in most other countries).

here in Italy Ada is pretty unknown, I think only 3 or 4 companies use
it. For sure Agusta use Ada in some projects and someone told me Fiat
too.
I've to tell you something : some time ago i went to the biggest
bookstore here in Milan (5 floors full of books) to buy an Ada book in
Italian, but I didn't found it, so i asked to a librarian there and he
laught a lot and said to me "Ahahah Ada ahahah you're crazy!! Who uses
Ada in this world? Ahahah... go and use something else, like C
ahahah". Very disappointing. Of course there were (there are) no books
about Ada in Italian on print.
But, let me know, a good Ada programmer, in the US, is paid well? I
ask that because i think i'll come to live in the USA soon (one or two
years) with my young wife and my lil' child (he was born less than 1
Month ago)...
Ciao,
   Enrico B.A.