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From: Philip Anderson <phil.anderson@amsjv.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/28
Date: 2000-07-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <398149AA.F0A7DB3@amsjv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3980F5AC.2534E38B@earthlink.net

"Robert I. Eachus" wrote:
> 
> 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.

And I wonder how many people applied claiming that experience :-)


-- 
hwyl/cheers,
Philip Anderson
Alenia Marconi Systems
Cwmbr�n, Cymru/Wales




  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-17  0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17  0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-17  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00         ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00           ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19  0:00             ` David Starner
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19  0:00             ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20  0:00               ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26  0:00     ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26  0:00       ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27  0:00           ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-26  0:00         ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19  0:00     ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19  0:00       ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20  0:00         ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-19  0:00       ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? fdebruin
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-19  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00       ` nabbasi
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28  0:00               ` Philip Anderson [this message]
2000-07-28  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31  0:00               ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19  0:00           ` nabbasi
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20  0:00         ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-24  0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-25  0:00     ` gdemont
2000-07-25  0:00     ` Gary Scott
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