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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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SharePoint, definitely. Most other .NET technologies as well.
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I love working with .Net. I hate SharePoint. Took that one off my résumé as well.
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Dan Neely wrote: Installshield
VB.net
Installshield
But how do you really feel about InstallShield? 
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
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SQL
Crystal Reports
MS Access
Pretty much anything to do with databases.
Oh-oh, I can can hear somebody coming down the hall now to ask me to do something in Access now just for having mentionerd it... I feel ill.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Access
Filemaker Pro
Crystal Reports
VB6
I've never distinguished between VB.NET and C#. I just say .NET on the CV.
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Crystal Reports bleh
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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