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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-19 07:15:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.csl-gmbh.net!news-x2.support.nl!easynet-monga!easynet.net!server5.netnews.ja.net!news.ncl.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada? Date: 19 Mar 2002 15:06:23 GMT Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Message-ID: References: <4ezc8.1103$48.60681@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com> <3c78167e.3219289@news.cis.dfn.de> <98104da8.0202270726.97da933@posting.google.com> Reply-To: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org NNTP-Posting-Host: syrah.ncl.ac.uk User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21456 Date: 2002-03-19T15:06:23+00:00 List-Id: 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