From: Dalen Kruse <Dalen.D.Kruse@lmco.com>
Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<
Date: 1999/02/11
Date: 1999-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36C32D0A.853B218F@lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36C2036B.D2B4B148@pwfl.com
Marin David Condic wrote:
> Bob@nospam.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <alwillF6y5tr.7Cq@netcom.com>, alwill@netcom.com says...
> >
> > >Our client is looking for several experienced Ada Software Engineers to work
> > >in several different areas of a large embedded real-time system for the
> > >military.
> >
> > Is the military the only ones who use Ada?
> >
> > it sure looks like it. Becuase that is all what I see the Ada job Ads for.
> >
> > Ada is only used to help kill people.
> >
> You say that as if it were a *bad* thing! Try this exercise: Stand with
> your back to the wall holding a firearm. Wait for some terrorists,
> foreign invaders, street thugs or whoever is out there with ill intent
> to come charging at you fully intending to end your life to gain the
> money in your wallet, the land you live on or some negotiating points
> with powerful nations. Decide at that juncture if you will raise the
> firearm and defend yourself. Afterwards, you can criticize the men and
> women who protect your butt from exactly these threats every day by
> possessing and being willing to use deadly force.
>
> As for Ada being used only in the military: Not true. Our commercial jet
> engines have adopted this technology as well. So if your plane lands
> safely, you can thank Ada technology in part for getting you there.
>
> MDC
>
Bravo! Here's an interesting quote that Bob can take a look at. Maybe his opinion
would be altered then.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing
is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stewart Mill
- Dalen
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"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
-- C.S. Lewis
Dalen Kruse
Software Engineer, Airborne Systems
Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems
Eagan, Minnesota
E-mail: Dalen.D.Kruse@lmco.com
Any opinions expressed are my own.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-10 0:00 US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< SDC
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Bob
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-02-10 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-11 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` whiter5195
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Dalen Kruse [this message]
1999-02-10 0:00 ` David Emery
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-11 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <79v9f4$fe$1@remarq.com>
1999-02-11 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Alan Hohn
1999-02-15 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN] Alan Hohn
1999-02-16 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Alan Hohn
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Ada jobs & " Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-17 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Michael Stark
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-16 0:00 ` US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< dennison
1999-02-16 0:00 ` What Ada's used for (was: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<) dennison
1999-02-10 0:00 ` US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< bkwposx
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Dr Steve Sangwine
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Gautier
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