On Mar 22, 6:11 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:14:46 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > 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. > > I dare say that experience with many languages is a good thing, but it's > not a prerequisite for mastery of a single language. > > In any case, I'm not talking about the best developers. I'm talking about > the typical developer, who by definition is just average. They probably > know reasonably well one to three of the half dozen most popular > languages (VB, Java, C, C+, Javascript, PHP, Perl?) plus regexes and SQL, > and are unlikely to know any of Prolog, Lisp, Haskell, Hypertalk, > Mercury, Cobra, Smalltalk, Ada, APL, Emerald, Inform, Forth, ...
I love how you can rattle off 20 or so languages, just off the top of your head, and not even mention Ruby. ;) (Although Perl was close enough.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list