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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 651787874 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39748F35.72CBC45A@averstar.com> <8l26kj$3eh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974D54B.3D2449FD@silver.jhuapl.edu> <8l2q5o$1o9e@drn.newsguy.com> <8l3rnl$ji7$1@wanadoo.fr> <87hf9ml7bk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3980F5AC.2534E38B@earthlink.net> <398149AA.F0A7DB3@amsjv.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 964787231 216.215.86.189 (Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:27:11 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:27:11 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Philip Anderson" 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 :)