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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Phaedrus" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:21:21 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13u2tdqrrr26t7e@corp.supernews.com> References: <47e0c3d9$0$89168$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> <47e0ec63$0$11054$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20494 Date: 2008-03-19T13:21:21-08:00 List-Id: 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" 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