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Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> 
> In article <4fda7q$gk6@wariat.wariat.org>, enikitin@junior.wariat.org
> 
> >        5) Can't get a job programming in that language.
> >
> 
> You could as well just ignore the first 4 and leave this one.
> 
> For people who are interested in programming languages for the sake
> of just programming languages, we can talk all day long how much Ada
> is better than C/C++, but for the other 99% of the people, who leave
> colleges and want to get a job to pay the rent, or who have family to
> support, they see the market is taken over by C++, and see security
> in working/learning C++ (even though they might know it is not as good
> as Ada) so that is what they will learn and use.

For the past 6 years running I have had NO trouble finding Ada 
jobs. As a matter of fact, they tend to come looking for me. The 
demand for Ada programmers may not seem so astronomical to an
outsider, but it FAR outstrips the supply. So this point actually
works AGAINST C++.

(Ada pays better too)

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