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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e35f2efd6c0447ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Death of DSP support? Date: 1997/08/29 Message-ID: <872823499.47snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268828816 Distribution: world References: Organization: *JerryWare HQ*, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu writes: >Frankly, if I was hiring programmers for any project who decided that they >could not learn a new language when necessary, I would not want them arond >in any case. The keywords here are . The problem is that you already have an Ada-unaware staff who's knowledge is needed to keep your business critical applications running _today_. A world in which your staff is enthusiastic on technical improvements, and everything is sufficiently documented to handle more than the usual turnover does not resemble the current average state of this industry. Actually, there are a lot of people out there who are determined to keep it this way, as their bread and butter depend on it... And yes, I still can get cynical about it. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Consultant | Team Ada -- Ordina Finance | jdijk@acm.org