Re: Ada?

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> wrote in message news:<slrna9ekvf.9nt.Colin_Paul_Gloster@syrah.ncl.ac.uk>...
> I think you will find it hard to work with Ada in the U.S.A. because
> it would be tougher to get miliatry clearance; and a former corrspondent 

I don't know about that. Perhaps it is a bit tougher, but I've
certianly never seen that reflected in the numbers of foriegn-born
coworkers I've had. I had one heavy-clearance job back in the early
'90s where nearly 1/3 of the software developers were born in
communist countries! That particular job happened to be developing the
software for a COMSEC (communications security...aka encryption)
device for the NSA. Admittedly, none of them were foriegn nationals at
the time.

But my current job has 2 foriegn nationals working on it (inculding my
supervisor); one A Brit and the other Canadian. As a matter of fact,
my typing of this posting was interrupted by us comparing the pretty
designs on their green cards. :-)

My previous job had 3 foriegn nationals working on it in software (out
of about 9); one Indian, one Lebaneese, and one southeast asian (I
never asked where exactly).

I currently have other collegues here (not working on the same
project) who are from Pakistan, China, Japan, Africa, and Malaysia.
This isn't in some huge cosmopolotian coastal city either, its in the
middle of Oklahoma.

The fact of the matter is that the USA is a *nation* of immigrants.
Anyone who thinks we are somehow "against" the rest of the world
doesn't really appreciate the situation.


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