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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jul 93 20:13:53 GMT From: aio!usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John Cobarruvias) Subject: Re: Why soldiers are afraid of Ada Message-ID: <1993Jul8.201353.19685@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> List-Id: 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >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. > > >-- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. > ************************************************************* John R. Cobarruvias, Texas A&M Class of '78, NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Tx. (713)483-9357 "Your pain will be legendary" (Hellraiser I) "And to think..................I hesitated" (Hellraiser II) "These pins are killing me!" (Pinhead in Hellraiser IV) *************************************************************