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From: cooper@vlab.enet.dec.com (g.d.cooper in the shadowlands)
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Subject: Re: Which language to teach first?
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Date: 23 Aug 89 22:26:23 GMT
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In article <1189@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, jont@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jon Taylor) writes...
>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.


>.... and you will perform very well on this course, beacuse you
>will have been given a sound theoretical grounding with which
>to learn the language(s) of your employers choice.

Yes but then you wouldn't have been hired in the first place.  The
problem with relying upon your ability to learn in job aquisition is
that the future employer doesn't want somebody who knows `plover' two
days from now but one who has been working with it for years.

		Running into this problem frequently,

				shades
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