Choosing a new language

[Tim Roberts]

kevin  cline <kevin.cline at gmail.com> 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, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.