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_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-11 18:16:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!newspeer2.clara.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What to Do? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:27:36 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3A5E4F78.4C915182@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <93imdb$k02$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A5CF82A.211D2FD7@worldnet.att.net> <3A5DBBCF.B86EB393@bton.ac.uk> <3A5DF4C3.331B58CB@lmco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b7.bton.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 979258824 10242 194.81.199.187 (12 Jan 2001 00:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 2001 00:20:24 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3936 Date: 2001-01-12T00:20:24+00:00 List-Id: William Dale wrote: > John English wrote: > > James Rogers wrote: > > > I find it strange that anyone is currently considering C#, when there > > > are NO jobs for that language. I suppose you could tie your future to > > > your belief in the future marketing success of Microsoft. > > > > Oh, I dunno... there are probably companies out there saying to > > themselves "what we really need is a bunch of programmers with at > > least 5 years experience of using C#"... ;-) > > So hire Ada programmers ;-) No, no, no... that's no good at all... ...for instance, where on earth will anyone find Microsoft-certified Ada programmers, for goodness sake? ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------