From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 22:38:26 GMT
Date: 1993-03-31T22:38:26+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Mar31173826@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: joshua@Veritas.COM's message of 31 Mar 93 21:14:14 GMT
>Obviously most programmers could learn Ada if they wanted to.
That is NOT clear to me at all. Most programmers could learn Ada
syntax, but not everyone can learn how to use Ada efficiently in the
context of software engineering.
To reuse an old analogy of Mark Gerhardt's: "Not everyone can learn
calculus. Should people who can't comprehend calculus be engineers?"
I'd add "Anyone can learn to draw integral signs, though..."
dave
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1993-03-31 13:36 Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate? jnestoriak
1993-03-31 15:33 ` Is General Kind the harbinger of doom Mark A. Breland
1993-03-31 21:14 ` Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate? Joshua Levy
1993-03-31 22:38 ` David Emery [this message]
1993-03-31 21:17 ` Robert I. Eachus
1993-03-31 21:30 ` Lack of Ada programmers? Donald Brancato
1993-03-31 21:34 ` Michael Clark
1993-04-01 4:02 ` Michael Feldman
1993-04-01 14:41 ` Eductation vs. training Robert I. Eachus
1993-04-01 19:48 ` Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate? John Bollenbacher
1993-04-03 4:04 ` Michael Shapiro
1993-04-04 3:29 ` Proficiency in Ada Michael Feldman
1993-04-05 17:15 ` MILLS,JOHN M.
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1993-04-08 16:02 Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate? agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!galileo.cc.roch
1993-04-07 17:15 agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall
1993-04-05 19:17 David Emery
1993-04-05 18:39 Robert I. Eachus
1993-04-03 10:50 ben elliston
1993-04-01 23:54 jnestoriak
1993-04-01 21:03 Wes Groleau X7574
1993-04-03 2:05 ` Benjamin Ketcham
1993-03-31 4:40 Gregory Aharonian
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