From: herwin@gmu.edu (Harry Erwin)
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/31
Date: 2000-07-31T13:00:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1eemlm5.1h19b38vw85osN%herwin@gmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3980F5AC.2534E38B@earthlink.net
Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > Very soon there will be jobs ads requiring "five years of experience
> > in C# programming". ;-)
>
> Not five years, ten years. At the ARG meeting held in Germany a few
> years ago (May or June of 1988 I think) there was a discussion of a
> wonderfully silly ad asking for ten years of Ada programming
> experience. We went around the table and concluded that only one person
> really qualified--Jean Ichbiah. Of course, Jean felt that he didn't
> qualify because he hadn't spent all that time programming.
It's not unusual for a HR department to have a search image consisting
of a 25-year-old PhD with 10 years of experience and willing to work for
$30,000 a year.
--
Harry Erwin, PhD, <mailto:herwin@gmu.edu>,Computational Neuroscientist
(modeling bat behavior), Senior SW Analyst and Security Engineer, and
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, GMU. Looking--CV available at:
<http://mason.gmu.edu/~herwin/CV.htm>
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2000-07-17 0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` fdebruin
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Harry Erwin [this message]
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-25 0:00 ` gdemont
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