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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!rutgers!uwvax!turunmaa.cs.wisc.edu!dean From: dean@turunmaa.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Luick) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Programmer certification exam? Summary: What a silly idea. Message-ID: <7220@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 22 Feb 89 00:45:22 GMT References: <8902201634.AA03717@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: dean@turunmaa.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Luick) Organization: the Fell List-Id: 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 -- Dean Luick University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences Dept. uucp: ...!{allegra,harvard,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dream!dean arpa: dean@cs.wisc.edu