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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:53:36 -0400
Date: 2004-05-16T14:53:36-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <zYqdnRUt74ssJTrd4p2dnA@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c83240$jct$1@sparta.btinternet.com>

Martin Dowie wrote:

> A company I'm familiar with (cough!) take non-computer degree
> qualified people and train them to be Software Engineers in high-intensity
> courses. The language used - Ada. Why? See the article @
> 
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Article106744.htm

The most telling quote in the article is: "Although the candidates learn 
the Ada programming language, which is widely used in the defence 
industry, the aim is to teach software engineering principles rather 
than Ada programming."

Teaching software engineering to some programmers is HARD.  Teaching 
software engineering to hot-shot programmers is, in my experience, 
impossible. (There are many converts, but they never come from teaching, 
only from experience.)
-- 

                                           Robert I. Eachus

"The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is 
unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such 
an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It 
can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business 
at hand."  -- Dick Cheney




  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-16 18:53 UTC|newest]

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2004-05-14 11:44 Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-05-14 18:11 ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-16 18:53   ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
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2004-05-13  8:39 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-05-13  7:57 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-05-12 14:25 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-05-12  9:06 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-05-12 12:52 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-12 17:58 ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-12 18:13   ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 18:28     ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-05-13 13:31   ` Mike Silva
2004-05-10  9:17 Kai Glaesner
2004-05-10 11:39 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-10 17:59   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-11 11:38     ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-10 18:28   ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-10 20:10     ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-11  7:37       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-11  9:45         ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-11  9:52       ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-11 11:50         ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-12  0:07           ` Richard  Riehle
2004-05-12 12:21             ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-12 15:36             ` Robert C. Leif
2004-05-11 19:34         ` Bernd Trog
2004-05-11 20:46           ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-12 17:09             ` Mike Silva
2004-05-12 18:51               ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-13  5:50                 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-13  7:21                 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-05-13  8:10                   ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-13  8:57                     ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-05-13  9:27                     ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-13 11:46                     ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13 19:20                       ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-13 21:00                         ` tmoran
2004-05-13 23:41                         ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-05-14  6:44                         ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-05-14 13:54                           ` Andersen Jacob Sparre
2004-05-17  5:27                             ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-05-17 11:53                             ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-14 22:31                           ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-15  9:05                             ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-05-15 11:46                               ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-16 16:48                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-17 12:17                                 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-18  1:05                                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-18  7:58                                     ` Peter Amey
     [not found]                                     ` <40A9EFFC.7090708@noplace.com>
2004-05-19  0:45                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-17 12:04                               ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-17  6:09                             ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-05-18  4:45                               ` Simon Wright
2004-05-17 11:58                             ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-17  6:15                           ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-17 11:48                         ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13 16:45                     ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-13 17:05                       ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2004-05-13 20:59                         ` Bartłomiej Świercz
2004-05-13 21:06                         ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-14  1:07                           ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-05-13 22:37                         ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-05-14  6:41                         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-05-13 19:30                     ` Bernd Trog
2004-05-13 16:17                   ` Mike Silva
2004-05-11 20:15         ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-12 12:30           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13  7:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-13 12:01               ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13 13:22                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-17 12:25                   ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-17 13:11                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-13 19:29                 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 10:45                   ` Kai Glaesner
2004-05-14 22:35                     ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-17 12:26                   ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-17 19:29                     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-18  1:09                       ` Jeffrey Carter
     [not found]                         ` <40A9F260.9080300@noplace.com>
2004-05-19  0:50                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-19  1:34                             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06  9:48                         ` I R T
2004-05-18  4:50                       ` Simon Wright
     [not found]                         ` <40A9F38C.9080003@noplace.com>
2004-05-18 21:05                           ` Simon Wright
2004-06-06  9:51                             ` I R T
2004-05-18 12:05                       ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-19 17:17                         ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-19 22:21                           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-20 19:10                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-21 11:39                             ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-19 22:42                         ` Jeff C,
2004-05-20 11:36                           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-21  1:46                             ` Jeff C,
2004-05-21  5:46                               ` Richard  Riehle
2004-05-21  5:44                             ` Simon Wright
2004-06-06 10:01                               ` I R T
2004-05-12  2:32         ` Steve
2004-05-12 12:34           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13  6:21         ` Richard  Riehle
2004-05-13 12:09           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13 14:58           ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-11 11:41     ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-11 17:28       ` Bernd Specht
2004-05-12 12:42         ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-13  8:00           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-12 10:01     ` Peter Amey
2004-05-12 12:50       ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-12 14:45         ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-13  7:43         ` Peter Amey
2004-05-13 12:17           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-12 17:13       ` Mike Silva
2004-05-10 21:31 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-11 11:29   ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-11 20:12     ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-11 14:29   ` Britt Snodgrass
2004-06-06  9:30 ` I R T
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