Kelly Hall wrote:
"Glen" <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message 3E39F262.5090901@nycap.rr.com">news:3E39F262.5090901@nycap.rr.com...C and Assembly programmers are need to do embedded work-- NO one is going to make a programmable coffee maker with a pentium chip inside and windows nt (or ce or whatever).As an embedded engineer, I'm happy to agree with you that a pentium is probably overkill for a coffee maker. And yet, at Fry's last month I saw a refrigerator with a built-in PC running windows.
Ah. You know more than me then. I used to be a database programmer and am now unemployed. I've been working on some PalmOS stuff while out of work. You only get about 200K of dynamic memory at the most. All Shrinkware apps are written in C, C++, forth or some other compiled languages. The executable size has to be small. You can't really ask the customer to download a 1.5MB JVM when they only have 2 or 8 mb total.
The job market is very bad here. The idea that the company would change languages for the convenience of the new hire programmers is unheard of.
Dept of homeland security just decided to go with linux last week-- theres a few VB jobs up in smoke right there.You have to warn readers ahead of time when you say things like this - I laughed so hard root beer shot out of my nose. Kelly
Linux for the database servers I believe. I'm not sure anything can help the INS...
Glen.