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- From: koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Harry Koehnemann)
- Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.214657.8767@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep11.164402.7141@seas.gwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:46:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.164402.7141@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
- >Five years ago or so, I was made to listen to a drumbeat of exhortation
- >from various representatives of the Ada community, meaning DoD folks,
- >their contractors, and the compiler houses alike. These prophets told me
- >that no student who didn't know Ada would ever be able to get a job.
-
- Interesting thing happened to me last week. I went to the local eye
- place to get a pair of contacts and while putting them on I got to
- talking with the "eye guy". Note this was not the doctor, rather
- the guy behind the desk. Anyways he asked me if I attended the
- university, then what I studied, then what my research area was, then...
-
- Anyways to make a long story short, we talked for a while. This guy used
- to be involved with Ada somewhere in the government, then worked for a
- rather famous Ada compiler vendor (probably should remain nameless), but
- was now helping me with my contacts. He was older - 43 if I recall - but
- knowing Ada sure wasn't helping him get a job (he'd been out of work in
- his field for ~a year).
-
-
- >Anyone who thinks that Ada is being held back chiefly by not supporting
- >multiple inheritance is barking up the wrong tree. The problem is not Ada.
- >The problem is us, folks.
-
- Excellent point. I'm sure that forest is around here somewhere, if
- we could just take care of these damn trees.
- --
- Harry Koehnemann
- koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
-