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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge
Date: 1999/05/17
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Someone who believes decent programmers can learn new languages
probably would not be happy with an employer who believes otherwise.

Larry Kilgallen

In article <7hp5qk$at@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>, Charlie McCutcheon <"cmccutcheon@NOSPAMbegin"@enet.dec.com> writes:
> I think "interesting we don't do that here" generally translates to "we're not
> interested in training you - NEXT".  If you don't have the specific language
> skills they want, you're not considered for the job.  That's a negative if you
> wanted the job.  So if Ada is not wanted with employers, Ada programmers worry
> about being employable.
> 
> That said, I certainly think that any decent programmer can and should be able to
> learn new languages...  ;-)
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
>> Roger Racine wrote:
>> > We recently had a former employee come back for a job interview.  He
>> > specifically said that he would not come back to an Ada job.  There are many
>> > who think it is a blot on their resume to have their current job something
>> > that is "not marketable", like Ada.  These are (otherwise) very intelligent
>> > people.
>> >
>> Having been on either side of the job interview, I cannot possibly
>> imagine how someone looking for a hard working, intelligent, self
>> starting, go-getter to work on their project would view experience with
>> some specific computer language as a *negative*. I could imagine someone
>> saying "interesting, but we don't do that here", but it is difficult to
>> imagine someone saying "Oh, you worked with language X so it must have
>> dammaged your brain and made you worthless to do 'real' work!"
> 
> ....
>