The '08 recession forced me into a job maintaining an old Ada system when I was a young developer. Toward the end of that experience I was put on a project tha

The '08 recession forced me into a job maintaining an old Ada system when I was a young developer. Toward the end of that experience I was put on a project that involved modernizing and updating said system by porting it from SPARC/Solaris to x86/RedHat. I also had to learn to read MATLAB because most of the new modules involved translating the work of scientists into Ada code. A good learning experience, at least. I've long since moved on to more "modern" technologies.