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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:53:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:53:36 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-dJsU7WQAfu+grWe4cqTDHJ/f1EkHYWe+urfCrsnF97qq/LS+nSF9NEV8ilYJ8S4/8M6OhZUjqiUM46w!xNR3a7Z4/koWKzDfU5hK3lSkO10m/4kXfSPO15FPRhZq0YMckMadBWhQplIBXQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:613 Date: 2004-05-16T14:53:36-04:00 List-Id: 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