Re: A question for my personal knowledge.

[Charlie McCutcheon <"cmccutcheon@NOSPAMbegin"@enet.dec.com>]

I think "interesting we don't do that here" generally translates to "we're not
interested in training you - NEXT".  If you don't have the specific language
skills they want, you're not considered for the job.  That's a negative if you
wanted the job.  So if Ada is not wanted with employers, Ada programmers worry
about being employable.

That said, I certainly think that any decent programmer can and should be able to
learn new languages...  ;-)

Charlie

Marin David Condic wrote:

> Roger Racine wrote:
> > We recently had a former employee come back for a job interview.  He
> > specifically said that he would not come back to an Ada job.  There are many
> > who think it is a blot on their resume to have their current job something
> > that is "not marketable", like Ada.  These are (otherwise) very intelligent
> > people.
> >
> Having been on either side of the job interview, I cannot possibly
> imagine how someone looking for a hard working, intelligent, self
> starting, go-getter to work on their project would view experience with
> some specific computer language as a *negative*. I could imagine someone
> saying "interesting, but we don't do that here", but it is difficult to
> imagine someone saying "Oh, you worked with language X so it must have
> dammaged your brain and made you worthless to do 'real' work!"

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