From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: herwin@gmu.edu (Harry Erwin) Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/31 Message-ID: <1eemlm5.1h19b38vw85osN%herwin@gmu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 652752390 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39748F35.72CBC45A@averstar.com> <8l26kj$3eh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974D54B.3D2449FD@silver.jhuapl.edu> <8l2q5o$1o9e@drn.newsguy.com> <8l3rnl$ji7$1@wanadoo.fr> <87hf9ml7bk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3980F5AC.2534E38B@earthlink.net> Organization: HDE Associates X-Server-Date: 31 Jul 2000 13:00:28 GMT User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-31T13:00:28+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus 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, ,Computational Neuroscientist (modeling bat behavior), Senior SW Analyst and Security Engineer, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, GMU. Looking--CV available at: