From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: 19 Dec 2002 21:11:18 -0800
Date: 2002-12-20T05:11:18+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba162549.0212192111.6f10c012@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E00C2F7.8040800@cogeco.ca
"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:<3E00C2F7.8040800@cogeco.ca>...
> This doesn't really surprise me. I once heard a college
> prof complain about how hard it was to get C code to
> compile. This had me wondering how he was doing at the
> real challenge -- debugging the compiled C program that
> was corrupting memory. Compiling is the easy part after
> all. So when I heard this, it was easy to assess his
> knowledge level of the C language ;-)
In years of interviewing candidates for C++ programming positions,
two of the weakest claimed to have taught C++ professionally, one at
another company, and one at the undergraduate level at a U of Texas
branch. Neither could answer simple questions about the C++ object
model, nor could they manage a solution to a straightforward
programming problem that could be handled in a dozen lines of code.
I suppose that's to be expected as long as programming pays better
than
teaching programming.
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2002-12-13 6:43 IBM Acquires Rational Ada Grein, Christoph
2002-12-16 5:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-16 7:19 ` Richard Riehle
2002-12-17 22:51 ` Kevin Cline
2002-12-18 18:28 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-18 18:48 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-20 5:11 ` Kevin Cline [this message]
2002-12-22 2:39 ` faust
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2002-12-12 12:56 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2002-12-07 2:47 Richard Riehle
2002-12-07 8:24 ` achrist
2002-12-08 1:46 ` Richard Riehle
2002-12-08 14:45 ` Steven Deller
2002-12-08 20:20 ` Richard Riehle
2002-12-09 14:26 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-11 18:25 ` achrist
2002-12-11 19:29 ` Martin Dowie
2002-12-22 2:07 ` faust
2002-12-21 18:08 ` faust
2002-12-08 17:18 ` steve_H
2002-12-08 20:11 ` Steven Deller
2002-12-09 14:24 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-09 15:23 ` John McCabe
2002-12-09 16:55 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-08 23:31 ` Christopher Browne
2002-12-09 10:30 ` John McCabe
2002-12-09 14:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-12-09 14:32 ` Pat Rogers
2002-12-09 15:42 ` Simon Wright
2002-12-12 14:41 ` Alvery Grazebrook
2002-12-12 21:13 ` Martin Dowie
2002-12-17 8:27 ` Simon Wright
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2002-12-09 13:09 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-09 22:45 ` steve_H
2002-12-10 13:50 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-10 17:47 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-10 20:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-10 22:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-11 2:50 ` steve_H
2002-12-11 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-11 14:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-12 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-12 18:19 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-12 19:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-13 12:25 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-13 17:41 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-13 18:20 ` Wes Groleau
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2002-12-17 21:25 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-16 18:54 ` John R. Strohm
2002-12-16 22:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-17 14:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-17 20:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-13 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2002-12-13 21:52 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-14 14:01 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-14 20:01 ` tmoran
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2002-12-16 23:01 ` Ed Cogburn
2002-12-11 14:59 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-11 18:33 ` Wes Groleau
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2002-12-11 21:40 ` Hyman Rosen
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2002-12-24 4:16 ` David Thompson
2002-12-11 21:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-11 23:22 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-12 16:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-12 17:14 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-12-12 18:33 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-12 19:16 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-13 21:26 ` Programmer Dude
2002-12-16 19:27 ` John R. Strohm
2002-12-16 20:08 ` Hyman Rosen
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2002-12-12 10:07 ` John English
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2002-12-12 13:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-11 19:04 ` tmoran
2002-12-11 19:20 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-12 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-12 17:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-12 18:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-13 9:17 ` Peter Amey
2002-12-13 12:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-13 15:46 ` Robert Spooner
2002-12-14 14:15 ` Marin David Condic
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2002-12-15 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-15 19:20 ` tmoran
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2002-12-17 15:41 ` steve_H
2002-12-18 13:11 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-16 13:43 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-11 13:33 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-12 18:43 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-12 19:53 ` tmoran
2002-12-13 6:06 ` Richard Riehle
2002-12-13 10:22 ` Ed Cogburn
2002-12-13 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-13 14:16 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-13 21:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-13 21:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-14 14:25 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-16 13:56 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-17 15:04 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-17 21:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-18 13:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-22 2:41 ` faust
2002-12-13 14:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-22 2:47 ` faust
2002-12-13 17:55 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-13 21:55 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-16 13:58 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-14 0:14 ` steve_H
2002-12-16 19:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-14 12:58 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2002-12-19 9:53 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-12-19 16:17 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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2002-12-13 12:51 ` Marin David Condic
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