Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

Thomas wrote:

>  > I talked to a couple of local programmer types and got, "Ada? Didn't
>  > Microsoft sell that to IBM back in the '70s?"
> 
> So it's probably safe to say that there's no Ada hotbed in his area.  :D

One of my students recently went on a job interview. She put Ada on her 
resume since she is currently taking an Ada course with me. The 
interviewer looked over the list of languages she mentioned: "C... good, 
C++... very good, Ada... What is Ada?" My student said that Ada is an 
object oriented programming language. The interviewer replied, "You mean 
like Ruby?"

I respect Ruby but the comparison of Ruby to Ada made me laugh.

Peter