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From: Philip Anderson <phil.anderson@amsjv.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/28
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"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 :-)


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Philip Anderson
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