Re: Ada Jobs

[Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@surfpost.dk>]

<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> "Jeffrey Carter" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:CWiDe.5621$dU3.673@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >
> > To be more precise, a search on Dice turns up 3 listings in NJ. I didn't
> > look at the details. In practice, you'll see a lot of "C++, Ada a plus"
> > listings. I don't know what that means, but it may mean they're
> > injecting errors into perfectly good systems by rewriting them in C++.
> > It should be a crime to take such a job. But 1/3 or more of the listings
> > are usually real Ada jobs.
> >
> I recently had an invitation to apply for a job converting Ada to C++.  I
> wrote back and told them that I refused to even consider a job that
> was based on such supreme stupidity.
> 
> Richard Riehle

Cool! A guy from some "headhunter" company called my and asked if I
was interested in a programming job. The client company was using
Visual Basic and he said they were "coding like crazy". I said that I
was interested in software engineering, but he simply didn't get it.

- Mark Lorenzen