Re: Ada?

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

In article <98104da8.0202270726.97da933@posting.google.com>, Et
27 Feb 2002 07:26:13 -0800 ETnrico A. wrote:
  "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"

If there are Italian companies you know of which use Ada, why not
work for them? I think you would find it hard to get work in the
U.S.A. because there is official national interest bias towards
hiring U.S. citizens.

I think you will find it hard to work with Ada in the U.S.A. because
it would be tougher to get miliatry clearance; and a former corrspondent 
of mine at Meteosat reported extreme opposition to his notion of
working for NASA. However, I think that foreigners can work for
companies which work for NASA (and may actually have their offices at
NASA sites).

Also, consider other European countries with Ada users.

Congratulations on your newly born child.t