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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-20 23:40:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail From: faust Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:39:06 -0800 Organization: Cthulhu Fthagn Reply-To: The Elder Gods Message-ID: References: <3DFD7E9D.69976C19@adaworks.com> <3E00C2F7.8040800@cogeco.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.81.163 X-Trace: 1040456311 18874 210.49.81.163 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32140 Date: 2002-12-21T18:39:06-08:00 List-Id: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) , emitted these fragments: >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 met a TAFE ( sort of a community college or polytechnic ) teacher who taught Pascal. He thought that Pascal was object oriented. He now teaches at the University of Western Sydney ! -------------------------------------------------------- Come see, real flowers of this pain-filled world. (from Basho)