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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/12 Message-ID: <373992FC.86F994D6@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477027319 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <37372A84.641F2133@bigfoot.com> <7h8oe8$2js$1@cf01.edf.fr> <37382B0C.A95B6745@bigfoot.com> <373841A7.7AB200BB@pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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!" I spent two years working with Jovial code. (I refer to this as my "Exile in New Jersey" :-) Jovial was not something most people are looking for, but I don't think it was a detriment when I was out looking for another job. Obviously, I knew how to use a number of other languages and my real skill was in getting a job done - not being an expert in the Language Du Jour. BTW: I've had any number of people contact me saying "I'm currently working in C++ (or whatever) but I'd really like to go back to programming in Ada" and ask if I can get them a job. I'm not in a position to be handing out jobs to everyone I get an e-mail from, but the point is, there are plenty of programmers who are experienced with a variety of languages who would *prefer* to be doing Ada. My advice would be to start encouraging its use in the shop where you are at. If you can't use it for the direct project, you can probably use it for support tools or other sideline kinds of things where nobody much cares what you use. It's a little like the camel getting its nose under the tent - pretty soon there is a lot more development going on in Ada. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.flipag.net/mcondic