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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:32:58 -0500
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"Adam Beneschan" <adambeneschan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 5:31:59 PM UTC-7, David Botton wrote:
>> > Well said.  If I'm in charge of a project to be done in ANY language,
>> > I'd rather hire competent programmers and teach them that language,
>> > rather than hire programmers who know (only) that language.
>>
>> Agreed because we "understand" it is the skills to engineer not the 
>> language that makes the difference. That is not what a pointy haired 
>> manager understands.
>
> This is one of my favorites: 
> http://www.dawood.in/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-programmers/

Thanks for making my day with that one!

                      Randy.