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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7d66145c10697d62,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-05 08:50:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!crushed.velvet.net!aidan From: aidan@velvet.net (Aidan Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: How did you get started in Ada? Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Velvet Networks Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.velvet.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: crushed.velvet.net:62.49.231.23 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1012927797 nnrp-13:22792 NO-IDENT crushed.velvet.net:62.49.231.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:45:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (OpenBSD) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19641 Date: 2002-02-05T16:45:49+00:00 List-Id: So, after two years working as a systems and security architect developing large ecommerce websites, I find myself being made redundant. I'd really like to get a job involving embedded Ada, and there are some available where I am. However, all of them require experience in embedded development. Which seems to be the classic catch-22 situation. So I'm wondering how people here got started, or is embedded s/w dev a prety much closed system? - Aidan -- aidan@velvet.net http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/ aim:aidans42 finger for pgp key fingerprint: |----------------------------- 01AA 1594 2DB0 09E3 B850 | Vengence is mine, sayeth the C2D0 9A2C 4CC9 3EC4 75E1 | sysadmin