At Tuesday 26/9/2006 16:38, John Salerno wrote:
It's a nice thought that a person can earn a living programming with
Python, which is fun enough to use just for its own sake. But for
someone like me (i.e. no programming experience) it's always a little
disheartening to see that most (if not all) job descriptions that ask
for Python still require some C/C++ or other language knowledge. I
suppose this isn't an issue if you studied CS in college, because you
would have been exposed to many languages.
Sometimes it's the "one-size-fits-all" concept applied to workers:
just one man to do all things.
But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about
other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do most/all
companies require multiple language proficiency?
I think it's difficult to be an expert Python programmer and at the
same time know nothing about other languages.
It's a bit like "general music practice", playing other instruments
other than your main one may help a lot.
(I suppose this isn't exactly a Python problem, either. I'm sure even
companies that don't use Python still use multiple languages. Maybe it
isn't a good idea to focus entirely on a single language, depending on
the job at hand.)
As an example, here at work we use: mostly Python (for web
applications) and Delphi (desktop) both for new projects; Java for
some background data mining processes; and a bunch of
BASIC/Pascal/FORTRAN legacy code which I wish I could throw away ...
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL
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