Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??

["G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid>]

On 11.05.18 22:19, Warren wrote:

> Another part of the problem is the chicken and egg problem:
> 
> I'd love to do my work in Ada where I work, but it would be unfair of me to introduce it here. They can barely hire C++ programmers where I live, let alone find someone that is proficient in Ada.  If I left behind a legacy of Ada code here, they'd never let me retire!

How many weeks or months does it take for a programmer to become reasonably
fluent in any of these languages? Apple Computer Inc. doesn't suffer
from their introduction of Swift. Programmers who work in places
that use Microsoft Corporation's languages tend to know some C# or VB.NET,
possibly having used C or some Pascal before, and nothing had turned
C# or VB.NET into economic obstacles after their introduction.

So, chicken indeed, somewhere.

OTOH, it seems that HR managers are really made to ask for preexisting
specializations when they name languages. "... candidate ... knows C++ ...
Microsoft Windows ..." isn't really asking about C++. They want
to know if the programmer knows Win32 vocabulary as addressed using
Microsoft's "C++/CLI" language, or, maybe, which .NET collections of
types they have used as these are to be used on a six months project.

Note to candidates: some HR managers are impressed if you have used
the IDE of choice. More important for measuring "professionalism"
than quality of programs.


(Consider
Delphi vs Visual Studio,
Netbeans vs Eclipse,
GNAT PS vs Emacs,
....)