From: dean@turunmaa.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Luick)
Subject: Re: Ada Programmer certification exam?
Date: 22 Feb 89 00:45:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7220@spool.cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8902201634.AA03717@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
In article <8902201634.AA03717@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> SWW0751@TAMVENUS.BITNET writes:
>I would like to know how others feel about "Certified Ada Programmers." Any
>information will be appreciated.
I think this is a silly idea. A language is a language. Sure there are
quirks to each language (Ada has more than I've ever seen) but you eventually
learn them, or learn enough to get by with what you are doing. If I were a
project manager looking programmers, I would be looking for people who
could produce usable, working, code. Unfortunately, this is much harder to
pin down. Testing for knowlege is easy, having the ability to apply it
is much more rare.
dean
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1989-02-20 16:44 Ada Programmer certification exam? SWW0751
1989-02-20 21:23 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-02-22 0:45 ` Dean Luick [this message]
1989-02-23 15:06 ` Ada Programmer certification ex ryer
1989-02-25 15:36 ` Gordon V. Cormack
1989-03-02 18:43 ` Ada Programmer certification exam? Robert Munck
1989-03-02 19:21 ` Bob Munck
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