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After 10 years of SQL Server/C# development experience, i applied for a software developer position where it was clearly indicated in the job description that the required skills are SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET MVC & Javascript but the HR people sent me a Microsoft access/VBA take home test during the interview process. Sorry i lost interest at that point.
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Coming from Objective-C and Xcode native environment, it felt like I'd been lobotomised trying to code in C# on Xamarin, then swapping to Android Studio or Xcode for anything UI-related. Everything took 10x longer to do. And trying to force MVVM on top of MVC, and having to wrangle that abomination that is Android...  
(Yes, I preferred Objective-C over C#... but now I have Swift to play with, so C# is a blunt instrument in my eyes  )
I soon resigned, so maybe I did win 
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Language is the least problem in terms of software development.
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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Not sure how to answer this one. No one has ever asked me to write code in any language.
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Sounds like "no" then.
Tim Lesher <<A HREF="mailto:tlesher@gmail.com">tim@lesher.ws>
www.lesher.ws
WinDev: the Windows Developers' Mailing List
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Back in the dark ages, I did a university course something along the lines of "Survey of Computer Languages", which involved writing a simple program or two in various languages of the day. FORTRAN, APL (!), a couple of others I forget and the dreaded COBOL.
At the top of the second COBOL program I wrote
THIS IS THE SECOND COBOL PROGRAM I HAVE EVER WRITTEN.
I SINCERELY HOPE IT IS THE LAST. It got rejected, and I was asked to write another. I never did.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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VB rules the dark side of the software universe. VB 6 is indestructable. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Many years ago I interviewed for and got an asp classic role with a bank in the city (of London). Cool - so I turn up for the first day and go through all the usual on-boarding stuff and meet my co-workers. The manager puts me with the guys I'll be working with and says they'll show me the ropes.
Then we start to talk and it turns out that the role is not for asp classic, but jsp and java beans or some-such non-microsofty fluff.
So I go talk to the manager and he tells me that they had decided to go with asp for new projects and, between interviewing and starting, had changed their minds and decided to stay open source.
Kinda didn't work out.
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So, have you found other option?
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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??? This was a long time ago, when asp classic was still the dogs bollocks and .Net hadn't even been thought of yet!.
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Actually, I was asking, if you start looking for another job or were you continued working regardless
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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Oh , tight. No, left there and then.
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I even did VB.net for a year. It wasn't a pleasant year, though.
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I always learn - it makes it easier to prove, why it is the wrong one...And if it is the good one, then let go...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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leave me alone .. i still wanna cry
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'Nuff said. 
/ravi
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Having worked with these I made sure to never put their experience on my resume.
When companies would mention they used either in an interview I always made it clear that it was something I did not want to work with.
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Quite a few years back, a client asked us about providing a web-based system. (I'll leave out the details.) My colleague found an open source system using php/mysql (and untouched for over 5 years at that time) and asked if I could rebrand it and get it working for a demo. A week later, after much swearing we had something that worked and presented it to the client. More than two years passed when they asked to see that system again, and this time decided they wanted it. 4 months before the final product was to be delivered, I made a stand and refused to do any more work in PHP. The product was rewritten from scratch in a proper maintainable language/framework and delivered on time. I hope I never see php again!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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i would love to know what technology you used instead
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Member 10425001 wrote: what technology you used instead
We used ASP.Net/MSSQL and hosted the application in Azure.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have (so far ) succeeded to avoid the situation by listing the languages I know and want to work in in my resume. I do not mention ADA, COBOL and several others because I do not want to work with them.
I am relatively language agnostic - I am not such a purist that I will refuse to work in any modern .NET language, including Visual Basic.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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I had a series of Windows Services to write and my boss said I had to use VB instead of my preferred C# as "all the company code" was in VB. I then noticed we had a couple of stand-alone applications written in C#. Everything else was web-pages in VB.
I pointed these applications out as C# and that my boss had been the one to write most of them!
He conceded that I could use C# for the services as long as all my web-pages were in VB. Success!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I had a consulting gig where I was asked to write the same product in multiple programming languages. I listed the reasons why this is a terrible idea. After some back-and-forth, they understood why using 1 programming language for 1 product (a simple Web app) was the right approach.
In full-time gigs, I pushed back, but ultimately relented because that's what I was being paid to do. And since the company was willing to pay for training, I would've been foolish to say no.
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It has been my experience that if you refuse to do a task then you get dismissed, and that includes being forced to code in VB/VB.Net. Now, if you are self-employed then you call the shots and no one can force you to do anything...mostly.
So, you try to negotiate, but in the end, if management want's to abuse you, then they abuse you, and you will take it, and like it, or you will go work for another pimp.
![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Web Forms.
To be fair, I always advocate replacing the deprecated piles of concern-mixing garbage, but time is money.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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