Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Melzzzzz Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: [PAID WORK] Looking for skilled Forth prograammer to assist in project Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 01:32:04 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 37 Message-ID: <20141003013204.01576dee@maxa-pc> References: <49ab1641-c622-4a66-91c2-e0b92dbf0aaf@googlegroups.com> <42d36c29-2390-4475-a1f8-e5f218b6c703@googlegroups.com> <7xy4szkzc8.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7x7g0j9odq.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <26b559c3-f606-411d-a5c0-4d0514b01f3f@googlegroups.com> <8003649c-e6ab-427f-8124-9aafe2312817@googlegroups.com> <20141003003949.7dc67d73@maxa-pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net cy1Y8UmR0cLKpbFeKB6fIL5BOJzjdi0s13kI2jXncl+hDQuTbJLN94G2H+kpQMwGEkNSdF5QXfqSIb5fK4yEkA== NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 23:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="X/86a6BBG4I+qeb2YxgAQ3KmKAHDwTpsMGwio5ah9+rwBE0p3VS40UAwT9jGmYPKOaUTceDbRBIXt+UmXgdPFrgRQcnK2krRV5KfffEPqiv20Sq/y4F9wznEwk4qOHGg"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ETw5nSWF7rsdwT3O5+mKr3ywIU8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:33661 On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:11:38 -0400 rickman wrote: > On 10/2/2014 6:39 PM, Melzzzzz wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:13:03 -0700 (PDT) > > hughaguilar96@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Nobody showed any interest in > >> actually hiring me as a programmer --- I think they called me in > >> for the interview out of morbid curiosity, as they had never seen > >> anybody claim to be a "Forth programmer" before --- somewhat like > >> if they had advertised for a transportation engineer and had > >> gotten a response from a bear who rode a bicycle in the circus. > > > > I think that you didn't looked very far, or looked at wrong places. > > True, I never seen someone asks for Forth job, but this is because > > Forth *is too difficult to maintain and understand* not that it is > > easy... > > Or maybe there was no interest in hiring Hugh regardless of how much > experience he had or what language it was in. Perhaps this is because he is not tactical with people ;) > > Heck, I tried to use Forth in a job once and was treated like I > wanted to take the money out to be burned. > Besides micro-controllers I can't see use for Forth. Heck here is very rare to see C programming job on something else besides micro-controllers. Even C is suppose to be most popular language on TIOBE ;) -- Manjaro all the way! http://manjaro.org/