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=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!chinet!nucsrl!gore From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thoughts provoked by Ed Berard's articles Message-ID: <3930013@nucsrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-May-87 22:45:32 EDT Article-I.D.: nucsrl.3930013 Posted: Tue May 19 22:45:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 00:56:22 EDT References: <8705181900.AA13998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA List-Id: / nucsrl:comp.lang.ada / CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA / 11:33 am May 18, 1987 / > [...] I have a placard that says "Never try to teach a pig to sing: It will > waste your time and it annoys the pig." I believe that Ed is attempting > to teach pigs to sing as I have often done. [...] It takes 14 or so years > for a new technology to be widely used in practice [...] and I think it will > be so for modern software engineering/Ada and there isn't much Ed or I can > do about it. > [...] > So Ed, my reaction to your discourse is to not criticize anyone for not > immedialtely seeing the advantages of Ada, work with the ones who ask for > help. The 14 years will pas quickly and you'll be working on the next tnew > technology by then. > regards, sam harbaugh Oh, how wise that sounds... I wish I could follow that advice. I'm afraid I can't, though. What advice do you have for us poor folks in the education arena, whose job is to teach the new technology to students, but who end up spending a lot of time and energy just trying to convince our colleagues that there even IS a problem with the old technology? Jacob Gore Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab {gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore gore@EECS.NWU.Edu (for now, only from ARPA)