"Michele Simionato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Salerno wrote: > > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about > > other languages? > > Python is not a trivial language (think of generators, decorators, > metaclasses, etc) > If you can master it, you can master even other languages, so I would > hire somebody > who knows Python only. Notice that by "knowing Python" I mean also > knowing its > standard library and the most common Python third party libraries (GUI > toolkits, XML toolkits, SQL libraries, twisted, etc. etc.)
It's interesting that, thinking about it, I think lots of the technical knowledge used on a daily basis (doing mostly Python/SQL/JS etc. in my case) fits into neither the "language" nor "library" category, nor easily into most of the other technical categories one hears people use. ISTM that there's a vast amount of mostly-tacit knowledge about the way things work, and they way they should work, good practices, design techniques, rules of thumb, Bad Ideas ;-), etc. etc. that good programmers do have and bad or inexperienced programmers don't. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
