From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Jul 93 16:08:45 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fco m.cc.utah.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!tcrook@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Crook) Subject: Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada Message-ID: <1993Jul7.160845.20769@fcom.cc.utah.edu> List-Id: In article <1993Jul7.141538.23375@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.g ov (John Cobarruvias) writes: >In article srctran@world.std.com >(Gregory Aharonian) writes: >> >> The July 7, 1993 issue of the Boston Globe had an article about >worries >>and anger inside the military under President Clinton. One statement has >a >>major bearing on Ada. >> >> "A 1990 survey by the Army Research Institute >> found that 25 percent to 33 percent of service >> personnel feared they would not be able to find >> work in the civilian sector if necessaary, and >> expressed concerns about their long term >> prospects inside the army. >> By 1992, the anxiety rate had almost doubled, >> with 62 percent of enlisted soldiers and 43 percent >> of officers questioned saying they were very >> worried about their long-term prospects for >> their military careers." [page 14] >> >>And what worried these people? Currently there are 50 to 100 times more >>private sector C/C++ jobs than there are Ada jobs, as any sampling of >>help wanted ads in metropolitan newspapers will reveal. Thus there is >not >>much of a market for Ada skills, especially when companies are inundated >>with resumes from many highly qualified applicants with the exact >language >>skills they request in the ads, reducing chances of soldiers arguing >"Haven't >>used C/C++, but Ada is better and I am a quick learner". > >Another example of logic on an acid trip. I can just see all the Desert >Storm Grunts trained in the use of an M16, Chemical warfare protection >use, offesive manuvers adapted to the desert, combat leadership skills, >XM1 tank use and maintenance, really concerned about how they will fit >into the software market place once they get out. Yep. Greg, you are once >again ate some bad mushrooms. In defense of Greg, who will probably never win a Mr. Congeniality award but who IMHO does occasionally raise some good points: Officers must have college degrees and at least in the Air Force, which I am familiar with, many of them have engineering or computer science degrees. These people fit Greg's description quite well.