Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"

[mcconnel@source.asset.com (Andrew McConnell)]

In article <3fv6lb$f4u@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>,
Jay Martin <jmartin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>Okay I was harsh.  But these "C" attitudes of programming are pretty
>much the norm in industry and I find this very distressing.  In my
>opinion, the Computer Science community must admit their total
>failure to teach or even understand or form a consensus about
>good software construction and programming language design. 
>

Yes, that was pretty harsh....

I have to agree that the CS community has really dropped the ball.
I've been reading many of the "jobs" newsgroups lately and see posting
after posting for "Software Engineers" who have n years programming in
language x.  My question: If they're hiring software engineers why do
they INSIST on experience in language x.  Isn't computer
science/software engineering language independent to a great extent?

I feel that they are _some_ language factors that you have to take
into account when doing S/W design, but a good SWE doesn't get hung up
on language choice.  

-- 
Andrew R. McConnell
mcconnel@source.asset.com