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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,40f73f60d2dd9ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Jobs References: From: Mark Lorenzen Date: 25 Jul 2005 08:32:03 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: TDC Totalloesninger NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.88.98.142 X-Trace: 1122273124 dtext02.news.tele.dk 184 83.88.98.142:53808 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3747 Date: 2005-07-25T08:32:03+02:00 List-Id: writes: > "Jeffrey Carter" 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