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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,799a70f71fde67fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: ADA 95 - can anyone recommend any training courses Date: 2000/02/07 Message-ID: <87n2ui$uk9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 582726811 References: <85ten2$gnj$1@taliesin2.netcom.net.uk> <389B8AAF.C60E11C9@Raytheon.com> <389C76A7.483A2B43@quadruscorp.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x34.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Feb 07 18:29:45 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <389C76A7.483A2B43@quadruscorp.com>, "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > We see these sorts of posts here all too often. "I'm a student and > they taught me Ada and they should have taught me > XYZ.....blah...blah...blah..." What I want to know is why someone who With that attitude towards learning new things, it not tough to see why such a person would get laid off. I was taught Fortran, PDP-11 Assembly, Pascal, C, Lisp, and APL when I was an undergraduate. I can't say I have ever gotten a job officially due to my knowledge in any of these. But am I upset that I learned them? Heavens no! A language isn't just a set of keywords; it a way of looking at the world. The important thing was that I was exposed to the concepts contained in multiple programming languages, and that I know how to learn new ones if need be. The goal is to teach you how to learn for yourself, not to teach you how to use language X which you will be able to use unwaveringly for the entire duration of your 40-year carreer. Realisticly, is anyone going to fire someone because they know Ada? I don't think so. Is someone going to get laid off for not knowing the language that all the company's work is being done in? That's quite possible. Is it your university's fault that you didn't bother to learn that language? I don't think so. Finally I'd like to mention that I've noticed over the 11 years of my career that for a competent professional being laid off is quite often a blessing in (a rather effective) disguise. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.