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Chuck Norris was born May 6, 1945
Nazis surrendered May 7, 1945
Hmmm ...
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think you're on to something Walt!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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That would be good if his DoB wasn't out by five years! 
Born
Carlos Ray Norris
March 10, 1940 (age 74)
Ryan, Oklahoma, U.S.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And Nazis surrendered on May 9th 1945, not May 7th, but hey...
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Wow! Chuck Norris was born 5 years old! That's impressive!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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He was reborn when he fired his first 1911.
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No, read it again:
Born
March 10, 1940 (age 74)
He was born 74 years old. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Chuck Norris does not follow time, instead time bends around him...
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With 10 plus years of software engineering under my belt, I've worked in many companies using a lot of different technologies. Whilst some were a joy to work with, there are some that I never want to see or be associated with again. To that end I tend to not list the following in the hope that no one expects me work with them:
Web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
Visual Basic 6, VB.NET, VBA or any derivative language
SSIS
Perl
Any in-house developed DSL
LabView
AutoSys
What are yours?
modified 11-Aug-14 12:40pm.
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You don't like .NET? It's a thing of beauty.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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C# is great, VB.NET not so much as I may as well slash £100 a day off my rate. Same for ASP.NET 
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Any exposure-only technology. For example I mentioned 'familiarisation' with Ruby or Java, and suddenly I get pr**ks trying to recruit me to Ruby On Rails 'guru' jobs or Java architect positions. Bloody dim-witted CV robots, written by naive programmers who haven't a clue what a Rule-Based System is. And don't get me started on 'Active' advertising that tries to sell you what you just bought. Again and again. For three weeks.
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I feel your pain 
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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CatchExAs wrote: be associated with again
Anything to do with InstallShield or similar ilk.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
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That reminds me of some work I did with WiX which felt needlessly painful
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CatchExAs wrote: WiX
That falls in the category of "similar ilk" 
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
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Wix is a priceless skillset. True it seems trivial from the outside looking in but the power and flexibility of that framework makes developers who have mastered it extremely valuable.
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Access
Any DOS technologies.
Crystal Reports
And a second vote for InstallShield.
Jeremy Falcon
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COBOL and derivatives. I have hundreds of year experience with that(those).
I actually love javascript and even VB.NET.
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I think I will have to pull MFC from the mix even though I have written over 1 million lines of MFC code on paying job. I mean I don't recall writing a single line of MFC since 2008. These days I am primarily a Qt developer.
John
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FoxPro, classic ASP, but above all PERL!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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VAX BASIC
Non-development jobs
I prefer to leave in stuff I don't like (e.g. VB.net) just to show breadth of experience and willingness to try new things..
I'm doing mostly SSIS now and though it's not fun (nor even a language), I'll still include it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: VAX BASIC
Was it the BASIC you mostly objected to or the VAX?
I worked for about 15 years in VAX/VMS with Fortran and FMS, some C in the latter years.
Tim
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The BASIC. Though actually I bought a MicroVAX 3100 specifically to experience the VAX BASIC interactive environment again.
I never used Fortran outside college. I worked with VAX and Alpha VMS systems from 1989 until 2002 -- mostly with C. The VAX BASIC was only on my co-op job -- because that's what the boss knew.
OpenVMS is still the greatest operating system available.
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