From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/28
Date: 2000-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <z_eg5.161$DA.18644@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 398149AA.F0A7DB3@amsjv.com
"Philip Anderson" <phil.anderson@amsjv.com> wrote in message
news:398149AA.F0A7DB3@amsjv.com...
> "Robert I. Eachus" wrote:
> >
> > Florian Weimer wrote:
> >
> > > Very soon there will be jobs ads requiring "five years of experience
> > > in C# programming". ;-)
> >
> > Not five years, ten years. At the ARG meeting held in Germany a few
> > years ago (May or June of 1988 I think) there was a discussion of a
> > wonderfully silly ad asking for ten years of Ada programming
> > experience. We went around the table and concluded that only one person
> > really qualified--Jean Ichbiah. Of course, Jean felt that he didn't
> > qualify because he hadn't spent all that time programming.
>
> And I wonder how many people applied claiming that experience :-)
Of course, if you were working with the average Ada compiler in the early
'80s, it didn't take long for you to *feel* like it was 10 years :)
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2000-07-17 0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` fdebruin
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-25 0:00 ` gdemont
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