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Of course they considered training a new generation of Ada programmers. In the end they decided other options were better. I think they encountered resistance
by tsotha 12y ago
Of course they considered training a new generation of Ada programmers. In the end they decided other options were better. I think they encountered resistance to the idea from software developers - nobody wants to be the employable-only-on-defense-contracts Ada guy during the next round of budget cuts.
There's no guarantee the software would have been any better were it written in Ada. Every generation is more complex than the last.
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- tsotha 12y ago>The irony is, people happily invest their time on becoming gurus in web frameworks with a 2 year shelf life max. The biggest reason I want to find another line of work. Programming is fun. Wiring together flavor-of-the-month frameworks is torture, but that's where the jobs seem to be.