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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
X-To: "Robert I. Eachus" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:33:24 -0500
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Subject: Re: # of Available Ada 95 Programmers??
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From: Philip Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:

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> But can someone who has never written a significant program in
> assembler--or even machine language--qualify as a good software
> engineer?

It is my belief that every software engineer should have at least a
dozen DEC PDP-11,
RT11 or  RSX11 projects under their belts.  There is nothing like
learning "overlays"
in a 32Kbyte task image space.  8^{)


Phil
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