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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-18 06:34:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <400A9983.1030207@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why ada is so unpopular ? References: <49cbf610.0401170627.79c3dfe5@posting.google.com> <4009BED6.5060607@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:34:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.3.102 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1074436486 209.165.3.102 (Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:34:46 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:34:46 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4530 Date: 2004-01-18T14:34:46+00:00 List-Id: Resumes are a little like "Marketing" (in the bad sense of the word). You often have to divide everything by 10. Perhaps this is why companies seem to be paying very little attention to them these days. I know when my boss and I are discussing personnel, his push is always to find someone that someone else in the organization can give a good recommendation for or otherwise get them vetted by a reliable source. Blind resumes may or may not tell you much about the candidate. Even if the person didn't exagerate his skills too badly, it doesn't tell you much about work habbits and interpersonal skills. I don't care how many languages a guy has or how much experience he can show if he is incapable of getting a job done on time or can't get along with his co-workers & customers. You sometimes can't tell that until its too late. ;-) MDC Hyman Rosen wrote: > I interviewed a programming candidate for my compnay not long ago who > had C++ and Ada on his resume. I was looking forward to a nice chat on > comparing the two languages. Unfortunately, it turned out that the > candidate knew nothing about either one. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================