From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Ft.W. jobs was Re: Ada/ Career Position/ Exceptional Opportunity
Date: 1999/08/19
Date: 1999-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37BC183A.7C32CD95@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37BB598A.DBD08E70@soli.inav.net
Suz wrote:
>
> Well, that's a possibility, but I'm not giving up on Ada (to go over to
> the dark side) yet.
>
Or you could look at it as being sent out as a missionary among the heathens. Sure,
there are "official" jobs which are going to be mandated from on high to be in
language XYZ (for a variety of good and bad reasons) but there are always sideline
projects in which you can pretty much do what you like. Getting Ada into the
sideline projects provides a means of getting it into the corporate culture - sort
of victory by infiltration. I'm looking at the probability that I will be moving to
a job that will be done in something non-Ada, but I believe I will still find
opportunities to employ it.
>
> To borrow a quote from your (MDC's) web pages:
>
> "I'd rather swim naked in the Great Salt Lake with a million paper
> cuts on my body."
> -- David Weller, when asked "Why not just use C++?"
>
> (though I believe he was paraphrasing Weird Al Y.)
>
I think the song was "One More Minute" and there was a lyric about paper cuts and
lemon juice, as I recall. And something like: "I'd rather clean all the urinals in
Grand Central Station with my tongue, than spend one more minute with you."
MDC
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-09 0:00 Ada/ Career Position/ Exceptional Opportunity Tom Gugger
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-09 0:00 ` David F. Harrison
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Ft.W. jobs was " Suz
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Brian Collins
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Self destructing computers Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ft.W. jobs was Re: Ada/ Career Position/ Exceptional Opportunity Suz
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-08-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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