kevin cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As if there were such a thing as an 'Ada programmer'. Any decent >programmer should be productive in Ada long before their security >clearance is approved.
That's only true because the security clearance process has become so complicated. Ada is not a trivial language by any means. Even an experienced C programmer is going to find enough sharp edges to send him back to the reference manuals on a regular basis. >The real problem the DoD has is that defense work is not attractive to >the best and brightest. Bull crap. You don't HEAR about them because of that same security clearance issue, but some of the most complicated and certainly some of the LARGEST computing systems in the world come out of the DoD. You don't create reliable large systems using a corral full of bright-eyed college new hires. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
