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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-11 07:10:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1005491415 28360 129.241.83.82 (11 Nov 2001 15:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:10:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16275 Date: 2001-11-11T15:10:15+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:09:26 +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > On 01-11-10 at 14:28 Frode Tenneb� wrote: > >>Good to hear that. >> >>Here's my 2p with respect to hiering people. If _I_ were to employ >>_one_ person and had the choice between one with extensive coursing in >>C/C++ but little general informatics and one with perhaps only one >>course in several languages, _I_ would asume that the latter one is >>probably more adaptable and hence more suited for the needs of my >>company. > > Of course, I agree. Programming laguage is a tool and it shouldn't be > any trouble to learn new one in shorter (or longer) time for > a programmer. The problem may be, that if somebody was doing wrong > in one language, he will probably duplicate the errors in the newly > learned. I think it is better to learn to how to program with Ada 95 than C++. Preben -- �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�