John Salerno a écrit : > 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.
You don't need to go to college to learn a programming language. I learnt C with the K&R2 and c.l.c. FWIW and IMVHO, there are at least two languages any programmer should know : C and Lisp. > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about > other languages? I really doubt one can be an "expert" in any language without at least a good knowledge of a half a dozen other languages and some exposure to yet another half dozen. In my current job, I daily use Python, PHP, SQL (in at least three flavors), Javascript, bash scripting, regexps (in a few flavors), html (yes, I know it's not a 'programming' language), css, half a dozen "web-templating" languages and a couple of "configuration" languages (apache, make etc). And I sometimes have to read/hack C or Java code. > Can you still earn a living that way, or do most/all > companies require multiple language proficiency? If a company only ask you for one single language, then you probably don't want the job. > (I suppose this isn't exactly a Python problem, Well, part of the problem is that once you've learned Python, most other languages (at least the 'main stream' ones) feels like a PITA... > either. I'm sure even > companies that don't use Python still use multiple languages. Most of them, yes. Some don't. Guess where you'll find the best programmers... > Maybe it > isn't a good idea to focus entirely on a single language, depending on > the job at hand.) Right. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
