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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Re: where can we get a job with ada Date: 2000/02/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 582947400 References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <389e1463.2654619@news.chariot.net.au> <7lrn4.1089$dw3.58010@news.wenet.net> <389e8d83.1078317@news.chariot.net.au> X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 949979127 208.178.101.2 (Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:05:27 PST) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:05:27 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gareth wrote: >>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html >>should bring hope to the heart of any Ada programmer wannabe. Keeping >>automated trains from colliding is every bit as "mission critical" as >>keeping fighter aircraft clear on who is friend and who is foe during >>the confusion of combat. >Thanks for the link - it was interesting reading. >On a side note, my major Ada programming project last year was a >real-time automated train controller, which ran four real toy trains >(and a freight) around a track. I didn't know the meaning of "mission >critical" until I began that project - the lectureres would literally >yell and scream when the trains collided and fell of the track. That got a laugh around the office. Looks like you've got your pick of countries in which to play with bigger toy trains and code Ada. Michael's list shows a lot of projects, and since many of them are from the same parent company, you'd probably get the chance to travel a lot while you're young, which is one of the two best times to do it. I hope someone made a video of your project to use as part of your resume, you'd be one of the few train-programmers-with-portfolio. Find a science fiction novel called SteamBird, I can almost guarantee you'd love some of the train scenes in it. Author might be David Drake, but I'm not sure, names just evaporate from my mind between the inhalation and the attempt to say them, have all my life. ===== random archival quality quote ===== in the distance a roasted cave newt screamed in agony -- Andrew Palfreyman -- Kent Paul Dolan.