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-Thread: 103376,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:35:16 -0400 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? References: <47e0c3d9$0$89168$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <47e0c3d9$0$89168$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <47e0ec63$0$11054$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: dcf09ad0.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=3W@kjUB;;Y>SoQbMV>2=O5K6_LM2JZB_3o8S^Q@8HoR73?@`i3kGa5;?NdCP33^X8>`gR9diY[Na6 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sover.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20479 Date: 2008-03-19T06:35:16-04:00 List-Id: 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