Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I would agree. As a trained Jovial programmer myself, I recall that the way
I learned it was that I took a new job, someone dumped a manual & some code
on me and I got busy. Getting the rudiments of a language down enough to
write useful code or understand someone else's code just doesn't take long -
even for a language as big & rich as Ada. Obviously, if you want to use the
full richness of a language, that may take longer before you become fully
proficient. But a project may only need a handful of people intimately
familiar & conversant in Ada to handle architectural issues. Everyone else
can be brought on board & learn it as they go.

At one point in time, C++, Java, Eiffel, Python, etc. did not exist.
Somehow, people managed to find programmers with 5 years of experience in
all of these languages days after the first compilers were released (tongue
firmly in cheek) so it must be possible to take programmers unfamiliar with
a language and get them up to speed quickly & efficiently enough to be cost
effective - or there would never be an ability to get *any* new language
accepted.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Gary Scott" <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:3B17AEA6.39A75C35@lmtas.lmco.com...
> Another one of those red harrings.  Most of our products were/are
> programmed in Jovial.  Try finding a trained Jovial employee on the open
> market.
>