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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/21
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In article <39772BA6.F72AC7FB@raytheon.com>,
  joseph_c_williams@raytheon.com wrote:
>   Of course, everyone has employee turnover and such.  But with
> a 'good' Ada project, I think your leadership ranks' average
> technical skill base will tend to increase over time.

That is assuming your company doesn't adhere to the "Dilbert Principle"
(Roughly: incompetents are promoted to management in order to prevent
them from doing any further technical damage. Conversly, very good
engineers are far too valuable to promote)

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T.E.D.

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