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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d6589e7b2c60444 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-03 09:30:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: employment with ada Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 12:22:19 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: References: <626e8ae.0305011636.5e899da3@posting.google.com> <4mo7bvc2n70k6eikm3muu2965nbo3m77ov@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cse.msu.edu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36913 Date: 2003-05-03T12:22:19-04:00 List-Id: "DPH" wrote in message news:4mo7bvc2n70k6eikm3muu2965nbo3m77ov@4ax.com... > 1) No college in this country is teaching Ada. There may be some > qualifiers on that that I don't remember, such as "as a major portion > of their program", or something like that, but in short there isn't a > source of new Ada programmers, nor is there likely to be. Now that just isn't true! Truman State University's (www.truman.edu) computer science program is taught almost entirely in Ada. In fact Boeing sends representatives to the university to give job hiring presentations outside of the normal career expo.