Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are.
I love (not!) this articles about what you should do or doesn't do so you can find a mainstream job. Resuming it: PHP/C#/AJAX (!)/JavaScript/Perl/C/Ruby && RoR/Java/Python/Vb.NET
Very poor article, very vague and with some mistakes and assumptions about each language. It seems written by some kind of reporter/manager, not someone who actually knows any of these languages.
I agree with ancestor, that article was awful. And beyond that, I've only met 1 person in my life that had "solid" skills in 5+ languages, let alone 10. The author is probably a head hunter that typically lists every language/technology on a job description. Why they do that is beyond me. I laugh every time I see "Requirements: ASP, C#, Java, RoR, AJAX, .NET". And since when did AJAX become a language?
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ancestor replied ago:
I love (not!) this articles about what you should do or doesn't do so you can find a mainstream job. Resuming it: PHP/C#/AJAX (!)/JavaScript/Perl/C/Ruby && RoR/Java/Python/Vb.NET
Very poor article, very vague and with some mistakes and assumptions about each language. It seems written by some kind of reporter/manager, not someone who actually knows any of these languages.
jcblitz replied ago:
I agree with ancestor, that article was awful. And beyond that, I've only met 1 person in my life that had "solid" skills in 5+ languages, let alone 10. The author is probably a head hunter that typically lists every language/technology on a job description. Why they do that is beyond me. I laugh every time I see "Requirements: ASP, C#, Java, RoR, AJAX, .NET". And since when did AJAX become a language?
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