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nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) wrote:

>
>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.
>

While there are plenty of C++ jobs, there are also more than plenty of C/C++
programmers available for them so the salaries are often not that good.
There are also quite a few Ada jobs (even outside the so-called mandated
world) and a considerably smaller number of programmers available and thus
rather nice salaries generally.  The availability of jobs is really not an
issue here although many C people want to make it one to support their
choice.  A good, preferably, multilingual software engineer should not have
a problem finding good jobs in either C++ or Ada (or many other languages for
that matter).  But to say that the career aspects for Ada is poor is just 
plain wrong.  While many people may not know how to go about finding good Ada
jobs, that doesn't mean they are not there.  In fact I know of at least one
terrible Ada programmer who is making around $100K per year - without even
having a degree!  In any case, the jobs are there and once you realize that
you can make a comfortable living either way, the decision becomes one based
on the technical merits and what you enjoy (happiness on the job is an
important factor also - at least to me).

P.S.  When I posted on this subject once before, one person emailed me that
he was making $200K doing C so perhaps there are some exceptions to the lower
salaries for C/C++ but (assuming this was true) I think it was definitely
an exception.  If that becomes common, I might learn to like C :-)


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