Here's one I would love to give up but can't. The world is stuck on Motorola ruggedized scanners and handheld computers for warehouse use. There is nothing else close out there. Development is with Windows CE and the last supported version of Visual Studio is 2008. Installation of software is a nightmare, involving creating system image differences to be stored into ROM. In addition these babies cost about $2,500 each for a device which has the pitiful screen resolution of 400x280 pixels. Please, where is the ruggedized Android (or Windows 8) scanner/handheld for $500? Can nobody crowd source something modern and cheap and put these guys out of business?

In 1969 our mathematics teacher introduced us to Fortran. We were allowed to run our test programs at Spadeadam (the nearby British missile development center - then mothballed). Kind of cool going through the blast doors to mission control to access the computer. How did it work out? Not so well, I'm still programming :).