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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1030cb,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid1030cb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10594f,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid10594f,public X-Google-Thread: fd77c,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd77c,public From: Dalen Kruse Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< Date: 1999/02/11 Message-ID: <36C32D0A.853B218F@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 443323961 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2036B.D2B4B148@pwfl.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Lockheed Martin TDS Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,mn.jobs,ia.jobs,kc.jobs Date: 1999-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Bob@nospam.com wrote: > > > > In article , 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "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. -------------------------------------------------------------------