From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 16:44:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: 9 Nov 2001 16:44:26 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0111091644.67bbbd16@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.186.172.38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1005353067 31060 127.0.0.1 (10 Nov 2001 00:44:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2001 00:44:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16182 Date: 2001-11-10T00:44:27+00:00 List-Id: You can contact me at my e-mail address and send me your resume. As you still have a year to go, it will depend on if my company has position at that time. Nevertheless, we will KIV your resume. Adrian Hoe Michal Nowak wrote in message news:... > Some month ago I discovered Ada and found it a greatest programming > language among the common programming laguages taught at universities > (Pascal, C++, Java and others). I started play with Ada a bit and > experienced all benfits of using Ada (everyone here knows what they > are, so no need to write it). > > During reading some posts here and looking through some job services > I found that Ada is not so widely used as C++ or Java nowadays. > I serioulsy think about catching a job in Ada after I finish my studies > (I'm on last year now). If to work as a programmer I would like to > write in Ada. I looked through some job offers at Ada Information > Clearinghouse. I did not browsed all, because I'm on dial-up connection, > but lots of them required at least 1-2 experience. I haven't found any > company in my country (Poland) who may need an Ada prorammer (especially > inexperianced newbie), so I cannot gain experience here. > > It comes time to write my M. Sc. diploma and I am on a crossroads now. > I may use Java or Ada for it. I talked with my leading promotor and > told him, that I will prefer to use Ada. After explaining him all benefits > from using Ada he agreed with me. Considering facts given above I came to > two scenarios: > 1. Use Ada for my M.Sc. diploma. This will allow me to gain some additional > experience in Ada (I know it does not count, but it is better to use it here > than nowhere). > 2. Use Java or C++ for my diploma and use Ada for self-needed programs or > for pleasure. I will get more Java C++ experience here which will allow > me to catch better job at least my country. > It will be not commercial project, by it will be not typical student project > also. Doing it well from the beginnig to the end will help me to gain > some experience. > > Of course the better scenario for me is the first one. Here comes my final > questions. Is there a possibility for inexperienced Ada programmer to > find a job? I suspect that there is, but where or how to seek it? Is > there a possibility to find somewhere such offers (for example job > services, which allow browsing offers sorted by years of experience > required)? > > Thank you for your time, > regards, > Mike > > ----------------------------------------- > ____| > \%/ |~~\ > O | > o>> Mike Nowak | > T | > / > vinnie@inetia.pl | > http://www.geocities.com/vinnie14pl _|__