On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > The typical developer knows three, maybe four languages > moderately well, if you include SQL and regexes as languages, and might > have a nodding acquaintance with one or two more.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "moderately well", nor "languages", but I'm of the opinion that a good developer should be able to learn a new language very efficiently. Do you count Python 2 and 3 as the same language? What about all the versions of the C standard? In any case, though, I agree that there's a lot of people professionally writing code who would know about the 3-4 that you say. I'm just not sure that they're any good at coding, even in those few languages. All the best people I've ever known have had experience with quite a lot of languages. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
