New Job Opportunity

[Miles Jennings]

Location: New Jersey
Need PowerBasic SME
create DLL files
Dos to powerbasic conversion
Novell and WinNT4.0 experience
Win XP a big plus and financial experience

Please email [email protected] or call (917) 553-2440

Thanks!

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[Donald Darden]

This job opportunity is also posted in some of the other forums.
Basically, it involves converting hundreds (actually they say
"thousands", but that may be an exaggeration) of programs from
Microsoft's BASIC PFS format over into PB/CC and PB/Win syntax.

The deadline is fantasticaly short - a mere 3 or four months. I
have it from one of the recruiters that the client, possibly do
to negative feedback about the practicality of trying to do this,
is currently reconsidering their requirements. Until they
restate what those requirements are, the recruiters cannot try to
fill them.

In case you are not fully aware, there are some real challenges
in adapting statements in one syntax of a language into another
version. Considerable advances have been made with the PowerBASIC
products, and conceivably, you could move old forward into a richer
and fuller environment. The practical implacations of trying to
do so, is hampered by needing time to document and evaluate the
existing code, then work out satisfactory ways to adapt it for
one of the PB products. In terms of underlying concepts, PB/DOS
is somewhat closer to PDS than PB/CC or PB/Win would be, which is
a fact that I passed to a couple of the recruiters.

Working with PDS was different enough from PB/DOS and the other
PowerBASIC languages that you would have to be able to read the
source code well enough to figure out precisely what the program
is striving to do, then work out an equivalent process or capability
using the new syntax. Some serious challenges would include
error handling, CHAIN and COMMON data types, inline code and
handling DATA statements, the scope of variables and structures,
converting dynamic FIELD statements into equivalent static TYPE
structures, changes in the Floating Point format from the old
MS standard, from a DOS environment (where most things are
controlled by environmental variables and path statements, to a
Windows world that is quite different from the old DOS
environment).

I'm not saying it can't be done. And hopefully, the client will
come to terms with what should be possible. But it is going to
be a lot of effort and a very short time to get it done in.

Just thought I would expand on the job requirements, by letting
you know some of the things that were picked up while speaking
to some of the recruiters.




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Old Navy Chief, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, now semi-retired

[Tom Hanlin]

I don't think three months is a difficult requirement, here. But, the
crossposting of similar ads is beginning to look like spam...

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Gerhard Kropf]

Hi Tom,

I think, you got the point. It IS spam ..... I already send different mails to the different authors of this kind of postings.
EITHER I did NOT get ANY qualified respond until yet, OR the mail was undeliverable ....

So how serious and how urgent is such an inquiry? If the different authors do their
complete job in the same quality as they did the initial posting ...
what a horrible thought, to work together with them ....

That´s surely NOT professional, thats SPAM

Best regards

Gerhard Kropf

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[Tom Hanlin]

please post any follow-ups here:



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tom hanlin
powerbasic staff