Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada

[aio!usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John Cobarruvias)]

In article <1993Jul8.152712.28480@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1993Jul7.160845.20769@fcom.cc.utah.edu> tcrook@u.cc.utah.edu (Tom
Crook) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jul7.141538.23375@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov (John Cobarruvias) writes:
>
>>>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.
>
>There are also quite a number of enlisted pukes who do programming.
>John seems to make the mistake of thinking that the military is all
>about basically brainless grunts in trenches.  I don't think that's
>been so for several decades, at least.  It's a very technical military
>these days, and some of them do software and are concerned about what
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>is marketable when they get out.  

Exactly > SOME OF THEM. Making a statement as assinine (sp?) as Greg did
is just another example of his sour grapes rolling off his plate.  There
are a few active duty personnel who have been trained in the deadly skills
of Ada programming who may, just may, have a problem getting a job in the
outside world; if they decided to get out of the Armed Forces, if they
decide to stay in the Computer field. But to say the Armed Forces as a
whole is afraid of Ada is just plain Frickin crap. 

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