From: "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Converting Ada Tasks To VxWorks Tasks?
Date: 2000/04/14
Date: 2000-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F79EA3.84D28C46@raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: r9CJ4.203$d21.25012@elnws01
Michael Hartsough wrote:
>
> The moment the "mandate" was lifted, my Director Of Software
> Engineering, who knows only the C programming language, announced
> that "we" were a C shop.
>
> Anyways, he has mandated that all Ada code shall be converted to
> either C or C++. Ada compilers are too expensive. Ada developers
> are too expensive to find and retain.
I recommend making yourself hard to retain. Ada developers are
in demand all over. If they want to convert Ada to C, they need
people like you. Tell them to forget it -- that you'll go elsewhere.
>
> Forgive me for blowing off some steam. I spent 12 years being a
> student of Ada, and now I'm being "retrained" to be a good little
> C++ developer. My career, as I knew it, has been destroyed by this guy.
>
Sad.
--
Stanley Allen
mailto:Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-14 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-13 0:00 Converting Ada Tasks To VxWorks Tasks? Michael Hartsough
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Michael Hartsough
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Michael Hartsough
2000-04-14 0:00 ` dale
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Michael Hartsough
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen [this message]
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Michael Hartsough
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Michael Hartsough
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
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