I am actually getting a lot of calls for c# conversions.
Is Ada still used that extensively? Is there a high demand for it (and high$$$)? Maybe I should look into it.
I have been joking with you a bit about this (my language is better than yours Ntah! nyah!) but it is all in good fun.
I love doing avionics and hardware control- most of the embedded systems work I get calls for are in c++
Yeah, it sounds like a great field -- I'd love to get in, but I'm stuck with the "entry-level catch-22" -- you know, the entry-level job "requires X years of experience in the industry"... which you can't get w/o an entry-level job.
I have been joking with you a bit about this (my language is better than yours Ntah! nyah!) but it is all in good fun.
I could tell that.
Is Ada still used that extensively? Is there a high demand for it (and high$$$)? Maybe I should look into it.
It seems to be; the life-cycles in aeronautics are LONG compared to elsewhere (the 747 started production in 1968) ~ given that the F-22 is [mostly] done in Ada (I heard there were things like cockpit-control were C++) and the 777 is entirely Ada there's going to be some demand for it. (Again, the only reason I can see I'm not getting the jobs is because companies [in general] want people "pre-packaged" for the position [i.e. no training required].)
I am actually getting a lot of calls for c# conversions.
I've been involved in some C# conversions myself, in user applications, the notable one being a conversion from Access to C#. I cam in on the tail and basically had to fix porting issues (they changed development environs from VS 2008 to 2010 and .NET 2.0 to 3.5 as well as moving the system to other machines) -- I initially got the job of "fix it so it compiles" [reference fix-up]... and then put on maintenance -- the thing is kind of a wreck in that it's more a transliteration than a conversion/translation, and you can tell it was mostly developed by intern sorts who had no experience maintaining a system. (You quickly learn to hate "cut and paste programming".)