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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert I. Eachus" Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/28 Message-ID: <3980F5AC.2534E38B@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 651661661 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39748F35.72CBC45A@averstar.com> <8l26kj$3eh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974D54B.3D2449FD@silver.jhuapl.edu> <8l2q5o$1o9e@drn.newsguy.com> <8l3rnl$ji7$1@wanadoo.fr> <87hf9ml7bk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 964752785 63.24.60.185 (Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:53:05 PDT) Organization: The MITRE Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:53:05 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > Very soon there will be jobs ads requiring "five years of experience > in C# programming". ;-) Not five years, ten years. At the ARG meeting held in Germany a few years ago (May or June of 1988 I think) there was a discussion of a wonderfully silly ad asking for ten years of Ada programming experience. We went around the table and concluded that only one person really qualified--Jean Ichbiah. Of course, Jean felt that he didn't qualify because he hadn't spent all that time programming.