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From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Ft.W. jobs was Re: Ada/ Career Position/ Exceptional Opportunity
Date: 1999/08/19
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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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United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines
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