Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dino!sharkey!itivax!umich!dip.eecs.umich.edu!smk From: smk@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Steve kelley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Which language to teach first? Message-ID: <228@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 20:54:46 GMT References: <2552@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <6204@hubcap.clemson.edu> <5594@ficc.uu.net> <1501@shuksan.UUCP> Reply-To: smk@dip.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Steve kelley) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 19 In article <1501@shuksan.UUCP> scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody) writes: > > ... Try explaining to you future employer that you were >taught to 'learn' other languages easially when they are looking >for expert Ada programmers. The first thing they do is send >you to an Ada course anyway. > So we have two options presented here : 1. I pay a university to teach me Ada, using time during which I might be doing something I find more interesting. 2. My boss pays me to learn Ada, using time that would otherwise be devoted to having to perform real work. I know how I'd pick. Steve "OJT" Kelley