Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

["Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com>]

A headhunting shop once called and asked if I knew anything about 80-a, or 
at least that's what I heard.  Took me quite a while to determine that they 
were spelling it!

Seriously, the best advice that I'd give a young programmer is to pick a 
language with a distinctive name.  Trying to search Google or job sites for 
Ada is only slightly easier than searching for C.  Weeding out references to 
the American Dental Association, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or 
A(nother) D(amn) A(cronym) is a real pain in the hindquarters.  (Finally, a 
reason to envy Fortran or Cobol coders!)

We should have named her "Lovelace".  At least then the other hits would be 
interesting!

Cheers!
Brian

"Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> wrote in message 
news:47e0ec63$0$11054$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net...
> Thomas wrote:
>
>>  > I talked to a couple of local programmer types and got, "Ada? Didn't
>>  > Microsoft sell that to IBM back in the '70s?"
>>
>> So it's probably safe to say that there's no Ada hotbed in his area.  :D
>
> One of my students recently went on a job interview. She put Ada on her 
> resume since she is currently taking an Ada course with me. The 
> interviewer looked over the list of languages she mentioned: "C... good, 
> C++... very good, Ada... What is Ada?" My student said that Ada is an 
> object oriented programming language. The interviewer replied, "You mean 
> like Ruby?"
>
> I respect Ruby but the comparison of Ruby to Ada made me laugh.
>
> Peter