Re: Niche Jobs

2023-06-19 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
A lot of functional languages seem to come into their own when quality and > safety are important enough to justify their low market share and consequent > high cost of development. > > The manager's manager wanted to know what are some similar niche, > high-specialization--hig

Niche Jobs

2023-06-19 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
high cost of development. The manager's manager wanted to know what are some similar niche, high-specialization--high-wage types IT jobs are out there. He's in the contracting and consulting business, I think it's mostly just professional curiosity, but I don't know where to start a search

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-06 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
Python is making headways in everything today including and especially where Perl was and is.Networking for example.  Cisco has web pages where they are using it for SDN dev. Perl is legacy, but worth knowing if you ask me.  In fact, the older programmers are retiring and unfortunatelydying

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-06 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
Well, perl, like Java will always be useful. It might be in decline as in active number of GitHub projects, but like COBOL -- Perl will always be *somewhere* on a server. Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+ On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 09:10 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-06 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I created my first website in 2000 using PERL and what I think was an early version of MySQL. Domains were $40 and hosting was around $25/mo or more. For a while I've been reading that PERL is dead. Is that not true? A quick search shows PERL is in a decline. Your Thoughts? On

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-06 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Bash +Perl, and a side of python will cover pretty much all of the above. and a number of PHP applications are commonly managed this way. popular because of its communication with MySQL On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:26 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-05 Thread Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
Bash is great, and when you can call almost any other script from within it (including some python utilities) you can do some amazing things. Phil W On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:34 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Its all I use right now for dev projects >

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-05 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
Its all I use right now for dev projectsLearned some stuff today on bash that was really cool. On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 07:23:11 PM MST, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm a PHP developer. I've always liked Linux.  Bought a box set of RedHat, what I think was version 4.2

Re: Is there such a niche?

2022-04-05 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
You've basically described DevOps. An admin that's also comfortable and mostly competent with development, and Agile development methodologies like CI:CD. It's been the foundational basis of my career and has been awfully good to me, better than I deserve! Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Samsung

Is there such a niche?

2022-04-05 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I'm a PHP developer. I've always liked Linux. Bought a box set of RedHat, what I think was version 4.2 around 97 or 98. Programming has always been the dominate part of Linux and PHP. I'm wondering if there is any value in making Linux the dominate partner and programming the support