From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:35:16 -0400
Date: 2008-03-19T06:35:16-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47e0ec63$0$11054$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47e0c3d9$0$89168$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk>
Thomas wrote:
> > I talked to a couple of local programmer types and got, "Ada? Didn't
> > Microsoft sell that to IBM back in the '70s?"
>
> So it's probably safe to say that there's no Ada hotbed in his area. :D
One of my students recently went on a job interview. She put Ada on her
resume since she is currently taking an Ada course with me. The
interviewer looked over the list of languages she mentioned: "C... good,
C++... very good, Ada... What is Ada?" My student said that Ada is an
object oriented programming language. The interviewer replied, "You mean
like Ruby?"
I respect Ruby but the comparison of Ruby to Ada made me laugh.
Peter
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2008-03-18 19:08 Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Mike Silva
2008-03-18 20:41 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-18 22:58 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-18 22:25 ` Mike Silva
2008-03-18 22:50 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 11:42 ` Thomas
2008-03-19 12:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 12:51 ` framefritti
2008-03-20 4:37 ` gpriv
2008-03-19 12:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 19:04 ` Tero Koskinen
2008-03-20 8:57 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-03-25 18:02 ` Tero Koskinen
2008-03-25 19:57 ` Gautier
2008-03-19 19:55 ` svaa
2008-03-19 21:14 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-20 4:52 ` gpriv
2008-03-20 20:22 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-20 20:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-20 22:17 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-20 22:59 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 1:54 ` tmoran
2008-03-21 4:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-21 16:41 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-21 19:15 ` gpriv
2008-03-22 14:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-21 16:39 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-21 19:21 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 21:11 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-03-22 7:02 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-24 18:01 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-22 17:16 ` Subtypes to represent coordinate charts Eric Hughes
2008-03-21 16:44 ` Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Simon Wright
2008-03-20 21:17 ` gpriv
2008-03-20 1:34 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-03-19 7:42 ` Thomas
2008-03-19 10:35 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2008-03-19 21:21 ` Phaedrus
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2008-03-31 4:27 ` David Thompson
2008-03-31 5:40 ` DScott
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